[MacTUG] Open Directory replication and failover?

[Steve Hellyer]

Ian,

Do you have DNS setup for replica when client all can find by name?
Have you tried rebinding the client to see it if picks up you now fixed replica issue?
Do you have SSH enabled on Master for the initial replication?* Can you actually SSH from Replica to master or is firewall/other blocking.

Implementation Guide...
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Apple-Training-Series-Mac-OS-Arek-Dreyer-Ben-Greisler/9780321635327-item.html?ikwid=mac+os+x+directory+serives&ikwsec=Home

Documentation
http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/Open_Directory_Admin_v10.6.pdf
* Page 88 To configure a server to host a replica of an Open Directory master:

I replied to you private emails.  Interested in your thoughts. Sorry for delay have been work on some CFI's that have come in.

Steve

On 2011-06-23, at 12:52 PM, Ian Turner wrote:

> well, thanks to a sharp-eyed co-worker (thanks Lawrence)
> 
> it turns out my mental syntax checker had the bug
> 
> <array/> is really short-hand for <array>   </array>
> 
> So this is not a bug report, it's just the missing content, I'm worried about!!!
> 
> too long a day, already
> 
> Ian
> 
> On 2011/06/23 10:36 , Ian Turner wrote:
>> followup
>> I may have found a bug, which I tried to report to Apple
>> 
>> it looks like the client is getting missing/malformed info
>> 
>> dscl localhost etc gets us to a list of Replicas; the key is there; but
>> it is followed by a </array>
>> 
>> there is NO preceeding <array>, nor any content
>> 
>> 
>> edited to remove site specific "stuff"
>> 
>> /Search/Config > read ldapreplicas/
>> dsAttrTypeNative:apple-ldap-replica: ldap://removed
>> dsAttrTypeNative:apple-ldap-writable-replica: ldap://removed
>> dsAttrTypeNative:apple-xmlplist:
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
>> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
>> <plist version="1.0">
>> <dict>
>> <key>IPaddresses</key>
>> <array>
>> <string>removed</string>
>> </array>
>> <key>ReplicaName</key>
>> <string>Master</string>
>> <key>Replicas</key>
>> <array/> ************** <---------------
>> </dict>
>> </plist>
>> 
>> dsAttrTypeNative:cn: ldapreplicas
>> dsAttrTypeNative:objectClass: apple-configuration top
>> AppleMetaNodeLocation: /LDAPv3/removed
>> LDAPReadReplicas: ldap://removed
>> LDAPWriteReplicas: ldap://removed
>> RecordName: ldapreplicas
>> RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Config
>> XMLPlist:
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
>> "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
>> <plist version="1.0">
>> <dict>
>> <key>IPaddresses</key>
>> <array>
>> <string>removed</string>
>> </array>
>> <key>ReplicaName</key>
>> <string>Master</string>
>> <key>Replicas</key>
>> <array/> *************** <--------------------
>> </dict>
>> </plist>
>> 
>> /Search/Config >
>> 
>> 
>> On 2011/06/23 09:31 , Ian Turner wrote:
>>> of course we are running the full golden triangle
>> --- snip ----
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