>The problem is that you cannot use a cells servers if you cannot
>contact a majority of them. My site is unusual in that there are three
>sites that should really be in the same cell, for software
>distribution purposes, but that cannot be for reliability reasons.
>...
>I second the question; how are people dealing with this???
Here at the ITD side of Univ of Michigan, we have a network topology that works
better for the way these db servers work. I too believe the db servers should
serve r/o requests if there is no quorum.
We have a main FDDI backbone that connects all local lans together. We have all
of our db servers and fileservers directly on the backbone. Since
the backbone is so heavily relied upon for accessing services, if it goes down the
user is generally in trouble anyways. In practice, main ring failures are rare
for us. What's more typical is a FDDI router going down unexpectedly or due to
planned maintenance. As you can tell, a lot of effort goes into keeping the
backbone up and stable.
Mark Giuffrida
University of Michigan, ITD
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