On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, John Drescher wrote:
This is why I have 4 LDAP servers. One master and the rest secondary that sync with the master using synchrepl. Its really easy to add an LDAP server to just about any linux box and it really does not need that much power especially if it is one of many.
I second this. The syncrepl stuff appears to be as solid as a rock and is very easy to set up; waaaaaay better than the old slurpd. I went from a master and no slaves to a master and two slaves, using syncrepl (my very first time with syncrepl), in under an hour. I have since added a third slave in about 15 minutes. This setup has been running for about 12 months now with no problems at all (OpenLDAP 2.3.32 on CentOS 4.5, x86_64). I have a fairly small setup: about 6000 dn's, and about 250 Linux, Mac and Windows clients, spread out across two slaves, and each slapd uses about 15-20 minutes of CPU time per day (Xeon 5160, 3.0GHz). No-one ever queries the third slave: I just shut slapd down on it four times a day, slapcat the database as a backup, and restart slapd. Never needed the backup.
This software is so good it's scary :) Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
