Gavin Henry wrote: > <quote who="Bruno Lezoray EMSM"> >> Gavin Henry wrote: >>> <quote who="Bruno Lezoray EMSM"> >>> >>>> i have a request from a customer about 2 replication architectures and >>>> i >>>> would like to know if it's possible to implement them: >>>> 1 - Master Server -> "hub" Server -> Slave Server >>>> >>> Expand on what you mean by "hub"? >>> >>> >> Hub comes from Sun Directory Server terminology which means a read-only >> server that receives/get updates to/from a master and send updates to a >> slave > > Ah, a proxy.
Nope. In Sun's Directory Server terminology a "hub" is a normal replica with own database. I've read it was introduced to spread the replication load when having *very many* slave replicas. Or maybe it was introduced to sell more hardware... ;-) Ciao, Michael.
