I am setting up some machines with libnss-ldap to replace /etc/passwd with LDAP access for centralised account administration. I am concerned at what will happen if the LDAP server goes down or experiences a network failure. I have a secondary LDAP configured but I need a way to use it if the primary fails.
It seems that libnss-ldap does not support this (I have reported a wishlist bug already). Is there any software in Debian which can do this for me? I imagine that it wouldn't be THAT difficult to write a program to listen on a port and then when a connection comes in it could make a connection to one of two other addresses based on which machine is running reliably. If there is no such software then I'll have to write a program myself. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
