He he okie I get the message guys. You, Howard and David are right. Effectively this would be like implementing NTP over LDAP.
Thanks, Alex On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]>wrote: > IMO, NTP is the way to go. Time synchronizing servers when doing > replication is a part of the deal. Any other solution is a bit > overworkilling, when kikking some sysadmin's bottom could do the job > more efficiently ;) > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Alex Karasulu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The first thread on replication after Emmanuel's comments started taking > a > > turn towards the question of time synchronization across replicating > > servers. Time synchronization is very nice to have and forget about > while > > writing the code around replication. And yes we do not have control over > it > > since administrators can fudge this up. > > > > Another alternative would be to have all the servers in the cluster > > communicate with one another on occasion to share their current time to > > establish offsets. These offsets (differences in time) between servers > in > > replication agreements can be used to correct for any time variance we > might > > encounter. Furthermore if the time is adjusted on the hosts, the cluster > > can adjust to time changes. > > > > WDYT? > > > > Alex > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com >
