On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:54 -0700, Hai Wu wrote: > Hi, > > We are using fedora 1.0.4, When the first ldap server dies and does not ping, > the clients can still bind to second server but it is very slow to do > anything on clients, opening a terminal or listing a dir takes a few > seconds. I find when ldap service is down on the first server but > server it still up and pingable, there is no delay on clients at all, > so I have the workaround to set up a eth0:0 on second ldap server(or > any other machine) to assume the IP of the first ldap server when > first ldap server does not ping. > We put our FDS servers behind a Piranha load-balancer and pointed the clients at the VIP. Works like a dream; loads are evenly distributed and if a server goes down the clients don't even notice it. -Steve
