No, that's not correct. Many applications are perfectly capable of specifying which outgoing IP to use. I just finished helping a user do it with openssh. I was expecting to find an option to tell syncrepl which outgoing IP to use. That's a fairly normal way applications accomplish this task.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:59 AM Jon C Kidder <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is outside the scope pf OpenLDAP. The OS will always choose the default > route for newly established outbound network connections. You would achieve > your desired behavior by overriding the default route with a static route > added to the routing table in the host OS. Note: this would impact all > network traffic destined for a specific IP and not just syncrepl traffic. > > JON C KIDDER | IT ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT > [email protected] | D:614.716.4970 | C:614.580.7302 > 1 RIVERSIDE PLAZA, COLUMBUS, OH 43215 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Thompson - NOAA Federal <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 10:50 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Specific outgoing IP for syncrepl > > This is an EXTERNAL email. STOP. THINK before you CLICK links or OPEN > attachments. If suspicious please click the 'Report to Incidents' button in > Outlook or forward to [email protected] from a mobile device. > > I've been using openldap's multi-master syncrepl based sync for years and it > works great. But, I would like to be able to specify which IP on a multi-IP > system syncrepl makes outgoing connections to other members of the sync > cluster. > > On my multi-IP servers I am able to get slapd to only bind to a specific IP > with the appropriate -h option. That works fine. But, outgoing syncrepl > connections come from the primary IP on the server. > > Can anyone suggest a way to specify which IP syncrepl will use to make > outgoing replication queries? > > -- > Dale James Thompson, NWS > Radar Operations Center > IT Specialist, Configuration Management Team > 1313 Halley Circle > Norman, OK 73069 > > Voice (405) 573-3472 > Fax (405) 573-3480 > [email protected] -- Dale James Thompson, NWS Radar Operations Center IT Specialist, Configuration Management Team 1313 Halley Circle Norman, OK 73069 Voice (405) 573-3472 Fax (405) 573-3480 [email protected]
