Patent ID: 8600933

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a peer server computing device, a request to perform a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) database operation; propagating, by the peer server computing device, the request to perform the LDAP database operation to a plurality of peer server computing devices to test the LDAP database operation at the plurality of peer server computing devices; receiving, by the peer server computing device, a plurality of test results from the plurality of peer server computing devices; allocating, by the peer server computing device, an attribute value to an entry in a distributed LDAP database by executing the requested LDAP database operation locally in the peer server computing device in view of the plurality of test results pertaining to testing the LDAP database operation at the plurality of peer server computing devices; and propagating the attribute value to the plurality of peer server computing devices in response to an indication in the plurality of test results that the attribute value of the attribute has not been allocated by the plurality of peer server computing devices.