Ldap using Multiple Domain Controllers for Redundancy

Openfire Openfire Support
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Hi

I have just recovered the system after a DC failure, is there a way that the system can look at multiple DC’s so if one is unavilable it will fail over to the next on the list ?

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Isn’t there a way to locate the DC via DNS?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/247811/en-us

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961830.aspx

So in a perfect world, there should be no need to specify any hostnames or IP addresses but rather find it dynamically via DNS.

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If you are talking active directory domains then yes there is. You can bind the ldap to the domain root not a controller. for instance if your DC is server.companydomain.local, yourr domain root is companydomain.local. I used that for my LDAP bind in openfire with no issues way back with version 3.5

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Thank you!

I tried to list my domain controllers host names separated by comma into fiel** ldap.host** but without success.

Now I put just domain name into field ldap.host

And confirm that Openfire server obtained redundancy to fault of domain controller.

I use Openfire 3.6.4

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this has got it sorted here too was on OpenFire 3.7.0 when implemented and have since updated to 3.7.1

thank you