Michael Ströder wrote: > hyc(a)symas.com wrote: >> I was considering returning LDAP_BUSY for this case, but it may make more >> sense to return a REFERRAL to the provider instead. (Although again, if we >> have two MMR servers pointed at each other starting at the same time, they >> would just refer to each other and clients would get nowhere until one of them >> finishes its refresh.) > > IMO referrals are harmful. > Just returning LDAP_BUSY seems best to me because if reliable HA is really > important for a deployment you have decent load-balancers in front of your > LDAP server which should do a proper health-check. Agreed. > Just a question: Is this database-specific? Maybe only one of several DBs is > in this initial syncrepl phase and access to others should simply work. Overlays are db-specific.