Scott MacGregor Reporter
	Description • 21 years ago

This came up from a discussion in the enterprise mail space. Apparently in 4.x
there was LDAP UI for listing failover LDAP servers.

According to Darin, the LDAP SDK already supports a list of servers for failover
but we don't allow the user to configure such a list. 

Here's some additional comments from Brendan:

"all they want is to put a space-separated
list of hostnames in the UI.  That used to work, and I think Darin said the LDAP
API works on such a space-separated list.  So maybe it's just a matter of
letting the spaces through, or (if the LDAP API wants some other format),
translating via strtok or similar."

	Scott MacGregor Reporter
	Comment 1 • 21 years ago

taking

	Scott MacGregor Reporter
	Comment 2 • 21 years ago

David is looking into Bug #223603 which is the back end for supporting fail over
ldap servers which is partially related to this bug. Marking the dependency.

	David :Bienvenu
	Comment 3 • 21 years ago

takig - this will be the bug for making the failover work. That other bug is
about not failing completely.

	David :Bienvenu
	Comment 4 • 21 years ago

actually, I guess this is the UI for making this work and bug 223603 is for
getting the backend to work. 

Yes, 4.x would just allow you to enter spaces as a host delimiter. I think for
Mozilla we'd like to have an explicit secondary host name for failover in the
UI. We can also allow space delimited hosts for those rare situations where more
than two hosts are needed.

	Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)
	Comment 5 • 16 years ago

bug 223603 still needs the multiple hosts piece