Hello, Exim 4.50 and OpenLDAP 2.2.23 (Debian Sarge).
I have a pair of LDAP servers for the various mail servers, that is I HAD a pair. One of them expired (hardware failure) and this happened to be the first one in the ldap_default_servers definition. Which resulted in massive delays/timeouts until I manually changed the sequence to have the working one first. Now, I fully realize that exim doesn't keep a state of these things, but maybe some sort of hinting mechanism would be a nice addition for the future. Am I correct in assuming that with my LDAP server defined (in DNS) as a host with 2 IP addresses (and just one entry in exim.conf) I would still have suffered delays, but 50% less on average? I of course could turn LDAP into a HA service (already running heartbeat for other services on these hosts in that mode), but I preferred to do poor man's load balancing via the exim.conf LDAP server ordering as opposed to an active/standby configuration. So what I'm saying (again ;) is I'd like to see exim fail over in a more semi-permanent way when trying to reach external database servers like LDAP. Dewa, Chibi -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/ -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
