Michael Ströder wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> I was considering returning LDAP_BUSY for this case, but it may make more >> sense to return a REFERRAL to the provider instead. (Although again, if we >> have two MMR servers pointed at each other starting at the same time, they >> would just refer to each other and clients would get nowhere until one of >> them >> finishes its refresh.) > > IMO referrals are harmful. > Just returning LDAP_BUSY seems best to me because if reliable HA is really > important for a deployment you have decent load-balancers in front of your > LDAP server which should do a proper health-check.
Agreed. > Just a question: Is this database-specific? Maybe only one of several DBs is > in this initial syncrepl phase and access to others should simply work. Overlays are db-specific. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
