RE: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.

[Andrew Probert <AndrewP@rotek.com.au>]

To me, these type arguments become circular.   Do we have a global Server
Location Protocol, talking to what?
Is everything tying back to DNS that has unathenticated processes?


Andew Probert
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	dboreham@netscape.com [SMTP:dboreham@netscape.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, May 08, 1999 6:14 AM
> To:	ietf-ldapext@netscape.com
> Subject:	Re: Beginning taxonomy for finding LDAP servers.
> 
> David Chadwick wrote:
> 
> > There is another approach that you have not mentioned, and that is
> > to have an LDAP knowledge server. The LDAP knowlegde server
> 
> Er, first catch your...
> 
> Surely the mechanisms under discussion are designed
> to find one LDAP server. The grand unified directory
> server idea is fine, but it's not solving the problem
> at hand, is it ?
> 
> AFAIK there is no requirement for a global LDAP-based
> directory service, is there ?