You might be interested in an article from IBM on "non-stop authentication with Linux clusters" where they use an LDAP server with replication on a second failover server and auto takeover in case of failure. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/articles/linux_clust/index.html Cheers, Marcel--On Freitag, 5. April 2002 10:22 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@netaktiv.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:07:37PM -0500, Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@five-elements.com> wrote a message of 47 lines which said:LDAP resources or experience in-house, but honestly would like to move to itNot to discourage you but do not take that move lightly: LDAP is a huge and difficult beast.well. There seems to be a real lack of a good, thorough HOWTO though.Unfortunately, yes.Have I not looked in the right place?No, no, it is a really a problem.Is LDAP really the best tool here? Keep in mind hundreds of authen requests per second,I never benchmarked so many requests but other people seem to be happy about OpenLDAP speed. You'll probably have to set up a LDAP replica on the Web server itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-isp-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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