On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Liam Gretton wrote:
On 11/02/2016 16:00, John Hodrien wrote:
keepalived and haproxy will do this very nicely.
What does that offer over using SRV records?
That's another way of doing it, I think that's what Active Directory does, correct?
Yes. Paired with "sites", you get a fairly flexible method for balancing usage.
With HA Proxy you get more options for load balancing which can be useful.
SRV works well when a server goes bad. If server returns a result that tells the client that there's an error (rather than failing to return a result), SSSD can mark the server as bad, and try another one.
If they're all hiding behind a single IP, you lose that ability as far as I can see.
jh