[ale] LDAP Server

[Brandon Colbert]

That is pretty much what I had in mind. I will bug you for configurations
later.

Thanks,

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Open LDAP doesn't per-se, but with NIC bonding and Linux-HA, you can build
> a very strong highly-available situation for your environment.
>
> We have two boxes that are replication slaves with bonded nics and then
> linux-HA serving a failover service address for the two.  If one goes, the
> other picks up... We counted about 4 or 5 second lag for pickup.  Couple
> that with nscd caching on your end hosts, and that small burp wouldn't be
> seen.
>
> We have a master LDAP server living on a different subnet in a different
> data center that replicates to the above pair of hosts.  It is where we do
> all our administration, and it gets synced to the replication slaves rather
> quickly.
>
> All that is free/open, and I sort of prefer it over the evaluations we did
> of RH DS.
>
> http://www.openldap.org
> http://linux-ha.org
>
> If you need any configs/setup info, just ask.  I'll share it here so
> everyone can benefit.
>
>
> --jms
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OpenLDAP has no automatic failover. All the others do. RedHat and
>> CentOS are identical except in name. Fedora is a tad more advanced.
>> They all support multi-master mode so any one can be live and any
>> other can fail with auto resync when it comes back online.
>>
>> Recommend: CentOS 5.3 with it's LDAP.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Brandon Colbert
>> <colbert.brandon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > All,
>> >
>> > I been tasked to setup a fail-over ldap solution at work. We have one
>> > running openldap. I wanted to get everyone opinion on the difference
>> between
>> > OpenLDAP, CentOS-DS, Fedora-DS, and Redhat-DS.
>> >
>> > If you had your choice, which one will you use?
>> >
>> >
>> > FYI: In the near future we will tie samba and radius with ldap.
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