Gavin Henry wrote:
<quote who="Bruno Lezoray EMSM"> > Gavin Henry wrote: >> <quote who="Bruno Lezoray EMSM"> >> >>> i have a request from a customer about 2 replication architectures and >>> i >>> would like to know if it's possible to implement them: >>> 1 - Master Server -> "hub" Server -> Slave Server >>> >> Expand on what you mean by "hub"? >> >> > Hub comes from Sun Directory Server terminology which means a read-only > server that receives/get updates to/from a master and send updates to a > slave
Ah, a proxy.
Nope. In Sun's Directory Server terminology a "hub" is a normal replica with own database. I've read it was introduced to spread the replication load when having *very many* slave replicas. Or maybe it was introduced to sell more hardware... ;-)
Ciao, Michael.