samba - Apr 2007 - Redundant ldap idmap backend possible?

Hi, I have just started to turn my Linux boxes over to use winbind for
authentication and ldap based idmap backend servers (open-ldap). As far as I
understand the documentation (for version 3.0.23c) it is only possible to
specify one ldap server, mine config line looks like: 

 

idmap backend = ldap:ldap://idmap.xelerated.com

 

I did try to map the idmap.xelerated.com entry in DNS to two servers, but it
only uses the first entry returned from the DNS-servern.

 

I want my environment to work even if one of the LDAP-servers goes down, how
do I make implement redundancy?

 

Regards, Lars Berntzon

 

 


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On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 14:23 +0200, Lars Berntzon wrote:
> Hi, I have just started to turn my Linux boxes over to use winbind for
> authentication and ldap based idmap backend servers (open-ldap). As far as
I
> understand the documentation (for version 3.0.23c) it is only possible to
> specify one ldap server, mine config line looks like: 
> 
>  
> 
> idmap backend = ldap:ldap://idmap.xelerated.com
> 
>  
> 
> I did try to map the idmap.xelerated.com entry in DNS to two servers, but
it
> only uses the first entry returned from the DNS-servern.
> 
>  
> 
> I want my environment to work even if one of the LDAP-servers goes down,
how
> do I make implement redundancy?

IIRC:
ldap:"ldap://server1,ldap://server2"

Simo.

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