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Re: client dns lookups, can they be disabled?



On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:20:16PM +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> ons, 2002-09-25 kl. 16:32 skrev Stig Venaas:
> > What if I'm using LDAP to store my zone data, and the client connecting
> > is BIND, and BIND cannot respond until it has connected to the LDAP
[...]
> What indeed?
> 
> As BIND DNS Admin, with the knowledge that I have at the moment, I'd
> never use LDAP for storing my zone data.
> 
> Any more than I'd stuff LDAP directory data into an SQL database.

There obviously is a performance penalty (quite a lot more operations
to perform), but if you design things carefully the delay might still
be small enough that it's good enough in many cases. I trust people to
decide for themselves if this is something for them or not.

> «Da' er vondt å vakna i Trøndelag, dao so' hjarta ditt ligge i Sogn og
> Fjoradn» - fritt ette' Arve Hjalmar

It seems you've done a bit of googling perhaps (: I happen to live in
Trøndelag.

Stig