Package: libnss-ldapd Version: 0.2 Severity: wishlist One of the nice things about NIS, is the client side failover that is implemented in ypbind. This make it very robust against failures. Here at the university, we have a lot of NIS servers, and for networks behind a problematic link, we tend to place one NIS server on the local network. All clients are given four NIS servers to use, and the fastest one of these will be automatically used. We are currently considering switching to LDAP instead of NIS.
It would be great if libnss-ldapd had a similar feature. I want to be able to list serveral LDAP servers in the config file, and for the nslcd program to test each of these at a regular interval (ypbind checks every 15 minutes) and switch to the fastest one. If the currently used LDAP server fail to reply, it should switch to the fastest one of the remaining servers. Please consider implementing such feature. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
