I've never seen it work adequately with RHEL 3 & 4 or Solaris 8 clients (solaris 9 seems to work fine). We use Piranha (which also distributes the load nicely) to get around it. -Steve On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 08:20 +0800, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote: > > Hi all > > We are currently using Sun's Directory server and have had some > problems with clients failing over to the other master if one fails. > The clients are a minxute of RHEL 3 WS and Solaris 8 (SPARC), and the > Sun Directory servers are both Solars 9 (SPARC) running Directory One > 5.1. > > /etc/ldap.conf > host 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2 > port 636 > ldap_version 3 > base o=unix,dc=company,dc=com > scope sub > timelimit 5 > bind_timelimit 3 > ssl on > pam_filter objectclass=posixAccount > pam_login_attribute uid > pam_member_attribute memberUid > pam_password crypt > idle_timelimit 3600 > > /etc/openldap/ldap.conf > BASE o=unix,dc=company,dc=com > HOST ldap1.company.com ldap2.company.com > PORT 636 > SASL_SECPROPS "noanonymous,noplain" > SIZELIMIT 0 > TIMELIMIT 0 > DEREF never > TLS_CACERT /etc/ssl/ldap/cacert.pem > TLS_REQCERT demand > > We're using the bog standard nscd daemons provided by the OS vendors. > We also use IDSync to synchronise user passwords from AD to LDAP but > not from LDAP to AD. > > What we're finding is if ldap1 dies for some reason, the clients don't > failover to ldap2. > > We don't know if the problem is client side or server side. Would > Fedora Directory Server, set up in a similar manner, also not failover > properly? While we're prepared to look at Fed DS, there is a feeling > that it too will behave in the same manner, given they are both forks > of the same project. > > Comments? > > Thanks > > CC > > NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. > They may contain legally privileged information or > copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or > disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an > intended recipient, please contact us at once by return > email and then delete both messages and all attachments. > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
