OpenLDAP + CARP

[Rafael NAVAZA]

> >
> > I'm indeed using the built in
> > failover capability of LDAP clients. It works just fine when the first
> > LDAP server is powered off, but it does not work that well when slapd
> > becomes a zombi ( because the clients take about 1 min to try the second
> >  LDAP server, for each request, every time ... )
> > It is for that reason I'm interested in building a HA cluster for OpenLDAP.
> >
> >
> 
> Could this help in your situation?
> 
> http://www.liquidx.net/blog/2006/04/03/nss_ldap-undocumented-nss_reconnect_tries/
> 

Hello Brandon,

That is a client side solution for Linux and I have several other OSs that use LDAP.
But I remember some users at work that sometimes had udev timeout when booting their CentOS 5 workstation, thank you for the link.

Rafael.