On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 04:16:24PM -0500, Jeff Wasilko wrote: > Is anyone using ldapclient for authentication with multiple > LDAP servers? Have you tested failover from one server to another? > > We're in the midst of trying to move from NIS+ to LDAP, since Sun has > indicated that NIS+ is on the way out. We're running Solaris 9 with MU4. > > We have 2 LDAP servers, with replication from the master to the slave. > Our clients are configured to use both of them. However, we've found that > it takes over 10 minutes for the client to switch from a failed LDAP server > to another. It turns out this is a new bug. I don't have the bug or escalation information yet, but there is an easy workaround: > If you have a profile set as follows: > > authenticationMethod: none;simple > > Then it takes 10 minutes to fail over to the 2nd directory server in the > defaultServerList. > > If you have just: > > authenticationMethod: simple > > Then the client will fail over almost immediately. -j _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Feb 10 11:36:13 2004
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