[Fedora-directory-users] failover works but very slow.

[Steve Rigler]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:54 -0700, Hai Wu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are using fedora 1.0.4, When the first ldap server dies and does not ping,
> the clients can still bind to second server but it is very slow to do
> anything on clients, opening a terminal or listing a dir takes a few
> seconds.  I find when ldap service is down on the first server but
> server it still up and pingable, there is no delay on clients at all,
> so I have the workaround to set up a eth0:0 on second ldap server(or
> any other machine)  to assume the IP of the first ldap server when
> first ldap server does not ping.
> 

We put our FDS servers behind a Piranha load-balancer and pointed the
clients at the VIP.  Works like a dream; loads are evenly distributed
and if a server goes down the clients don't even notice it.

-Steve