Re: Directory enabled web server anyone?

[David J N Begley <david@avarice.nepean.uws.edu.au>]

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Kevin Myer wrote:

> A while back there was a post about DNS and LDAP.  When I read it, I think
> I partially misunderstood it - I was envisioning an LDAP server replacing
> a DNS server.  However, I believe its the sort of information storage I'm
> getting at above - use LDAP to store configuration informaton about zones,
> IP addresses, access control, then make DNS LDAP aware and have it
> dynamically update as needed.

BINDv9 will have a generalised backend to which HP will (apparently) be
contributing an LDAP provider;  this should mean that BINDv9 will be able to
store its DNS zone information in an LDAP directory.

Cheers..


dave