Interesting you say that. I've just been playing around with OD
replication at the office, and i cannot get a client box to find the
replica on reboot if it's configured with "from server". The client
system.log has lots of:
CLDAPNode::SafeOpen Cannot retrieve server mappings from search base
of <dc=toucan,dc=test>
The client has no issue if the mapping is set to 'Open Directory
Server' and the search base defined.
That's precisely the context I was referring to. In order to figure out
/how/ to find a replica, the client needs to have a mapping (so that
when it retrieves data from the LDAP server it knows how to interpret
it as 'this is a replica'. You could probably point the client directly
at the replica initially; once it i gets a list of replicas and the
right mappings it'll query the master, too, if everything works right
(I have seen a tremendous amount of latency in this process- sometimes
the local LDAPv3 Plug-in config is not updated with the new replica
data in a timely manner; sometimes old, stale replica records stick
around, even if you don't see it reflected in the gui (netstat / lsof
are your friends).
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