Excerpts from Rich Megginson's message of Mon Sep 27 10:31:53 -0400 2010: > Ok. Please file a bug for this issue. Will do. > Are you using a load balancer or failover device? We are using LVS to load balance HTTP requests, but LDAP is not loadbalanced. However, we have an internal backend network which we use to service LDAP replication. Some characteristic configuration: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AC:DE:48:00:20:02 inet addr:172.21.0.228 Bcast:172.21.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::aede:48ff:fe00:2002/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:82813649 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:63692738 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:78380787428 (72.9 GiB) TX bytes:8426941129 (7.8 GiB) Interrupt:15 and Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 18.181.0.57 172.21.0.57 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.56 172.21.0.56 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.237 172.21.0.237 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.235 172.21.0.235 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.234 172.21.0.234 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.47 172.21.0.47 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.167 172.21.0.167 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.228 172.21.0.228 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.53 172.21.0.53 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.52 172.21.0.52 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth1 18.181.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1002 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1003 0 0 eth1 172.21.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 18.181.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 So requests that are transmitted to, say, 'better-mousetrap.mit.edu' are routed over eth1 to gateway 172.21.0.57, which is better mousetrap. Cheers, Edward