19 Apr
2004
19 Apr
'04
4:04 p.m.
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:45:19 PDT, just me said:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
After all, people who build DNS infrastructure intend it to be used to for generic DNS translations, not generic database lookups.
Wait. What's the difference? I must have missed something.
LDAP is on port 389. ;) DNS is intended for "give me the A record for the hostname FOO". LDAP is a more proper tool for "Give me the list of hosts that user Q-Froob is allowed to post mail from on Tuesdays after 5PM". Unfortunately, some of the anti-spam proposals look more like the latter than the former....