[Fedora-directory-users] UNCLASSIFIED - Linux ClientConfigurations & LDAP Failover

[HAWKER, Dan (external)]

> 
> We had the same issue.  It seems like nss_ldap fails over 
> after a reasonable timeout, but applications like autofs will 
> take much longer. Also, if you have two servers and all of 
> your clients are configured to talk to them in the same order 
> (if server1 is down use server2), then server2 would be idle 
> until server1 is down.
> 
> We use Piranha to get around this.  This way we can count on 
> both servers being equally utilized and clients fail over 
> seamlessly (so seamless they don't even realize they've failed over).
> 
> I don't know if this is the "prescribed" way of handling it, 
> but it works well for us.
> 

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the info and pointer. I'll do some digging and also have a
look at Piranha.

Thanks again

Dan

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Dan Hawker
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