[lvs-users] LDAP failover

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Bruce Thompson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We have two directors which are also the real servers which host two
> instances of LDAP (is it a problem for LVS to route to a local server - our
> ipvsadm output below looks a little strange with "route" and "local"?).

no

> We have heartbeat, ldirectord and ipvsadm configured. We want SUN eXchange
> requests coming in to be redirected to the secondary LDAP server in the
> event that the primary LDAP fails.

you are talking about failing over the LDAP servers, not 
load balancing them, in which case you should be using 
heartbeat and not LVS to determine the active LDAP server.

Joe
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