Ashish wrote:
Just an input, FYI I am not an LDAP expert :-(
Consider a situation where we have 2 LDAP Server (geographically
redundant) and both remain active. The WAN connection between them
breaks and comes up after a time of n. Now to keep both of them in
sync we use replication, so that both of them can server all my Users.
1. Will the replication take care of these needs (Servers may or may
not be time synchronized)
I _think_ that it's mandatory that the servers are more or less time
synchronized. In the real world, you should consider that servers aren't
synchronized, because it doesn't matter a lot, it's just a question of
accuracy.
In a replicated env, the most synchronized the servers are, the best.
So is it better to maintain when the Server last sent its entries for
replication (using his local clock) and start from there.
What is important is to know where in time to start to sync back, as
everything modified in the server since then can be inacurate and needs
to be compared with what has been done on the other server. This time is
when the server was last synced just before the connection breakage.
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cordialement, regards,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
directory.apache.org
