On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:04 AM, Masaharu Kawada wrote:
In /etc/dovecot-ldap.conf, 'hosts=' field is the one which can be used
to specify availabled ldap server to access from the clients to
authorize.
And also sevral ldap servers can be specified in 'hosts =' field as
shown
like below.
hosts = ldap-server1.example.com ldap-server2.example.com
Dovecot simply passes these servers to the OpenLDAP library. It
doesn't do anything with them itself.
※both server have the same configuration and available to
replication
ldap-server1(master) to ldap-server2(slave).
If this is right, how does dovecot know which ldap server is
currently used?
and if the master dies, how does dovecot know and switch to slave one?
I'm pretty sure that configuration will simply use both the servers
all the time more or less randomly. Unless OpenLDAP library has some
code that does something similar to what you're talking about, but
somehow I doubt that.
