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From: 389-devel-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:389-devel-
bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Soeren Malchow (MCon)
Sent: 03 December 2010 16:42
To: 389 Directory server developer discussion.
Subject: Re: [389-devel] Thought excersize: A different take on replication
Hi Gerrard,
Since you are already mentioning OSPF, how about grouping the
Masterservers into "zones" and have only one of the hosts taking care of the
communication to other "zones".
Changes could always only be replicated via the "communication master".
The main problem that arises here is the potential outage of one of those
"communication masters", this could be solved by either an election
process or by an explicit order.
Thanks for the reply Soeren, would this "election" process be on a OSPF
basis/level? How do you differentiate between the host not available from a network point
of view and from a service point of view. My network skills are limited and to be honest;
OSPF was mentioned during our discussions but I had to read up on it afterwards and it
seemed similar to the solutions we were discussing.
I think this would be a good way to go because it is very close to real life
scenarios form my point of view, I most likely have a view masters in
geographically distributed locations, but not tens of servers in one location (
maybe already counting e.g. different buildings on a campus as locations )
Not sure if that is a way to go, but maybe it helps a little
Regards
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