On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 02:50:27PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
kalyan wrote:
Hi,
I would like to share some simple idea and find out similar interest. This is about the ldap replication using the existing xmpp network.
Why?
To be frank, i did not think this because there is some serious problem in the existing replication mechanism. But the below might be considered for your question.
* The unchanged attribute is never sent to other server. Always the changed attribute is sent instantly. * The above delta sync does not maintain a changelog, because the changes will be sent immediatly as it happens on a server and unreachable server receives an offline message. Hence no need of a changelog. * N-Way multi-master + multi-salve combination is acheived. You could change the role of a server to master or to slave without the need to change the configuration file and restarting the server. * If its secure environment and if xmpp ports are opened this can be used as proxy as well. But I dont know such environment exist.
* I learn openldap and xmpp. * Its FUN.
Definitely this can't be a default replication method for openldap, but I am thinking what if I make another directory server to sync to openldap.
Thanks, -kalyan