Actually we do have cn=config replication for more than five years now without any problem
Yes, in an environment in which you seldom make changes, and your changes are restricted to the directives that work, things will work fine. But as soon as you start touching directives where it doesn't work, then you hit problems.
--Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: <http://www.symas.com>