Hello, there are some examples of n-way replication configuration examples around and I would like to ask for some authoritative configuration advice. test050 for example gives the impression that serverID parameter has to be multivalued at each configuration file, i.e. in a 3-way replication:

serverID 1 $URL1 serverID 2 $URL2 serverID 3 $URL3

same applies to replication ID, it seems that sid and rid have some mutual relation, and all participating hosts should be aware of all rids, i.e. in a 3-way replication:

syncrepl rid 1 provider=$URL1 syncrepl rid 2 provider=$URL2 syncrepl rid 3 provider=$URL3

mirrormode true overlay syncprov syncprov-reloadhint true syncprov-checkpoint 1 5

with this configuration each host has to connect to itself and to all participating hosts. I have done some extensive testing in the last few days and found that a system configuration as described above caused contextCSN to be set to sid 000 and led to a quite unstable system. The following configuration provided correct contextCSN setting and a stable system:

serverID 1 syncrepl rid 1 provider=$URL2 syncrepl rid 3 provider=$URL3 mirrormode true overlay syncprov

serverID 2 syncrepl rid 2 provider=$URL1 syncrepl rid 3 provider=$URL3 mirrormode true overlay syncprov

serverID 3 syncrepl rid 3 provider=$URL1 syncrepl rid 1 provider=$URL2 mirrormode true overlay syncprov

My question now is: is this a proper way to setup n-way replication or is this a wrong, but working, configuration.

-Dieter