On Wednesday, 31 August 2005, at 11:59:43 (+0900), Carsten Haitzler wrote: > how many people do dns via nis/yp or ldap? sure - nice theory - but > actually do dns VIA that? i knwo dns servers are oftne BACKED by > ldap as such - but other than very specific special cases in niche > areas - actual dns VIA nis/yp or ldap... i don't know.
It's not DNS via NIS/YP. It's name resolution via NIS/YP. It's really no different than using /etc/hosts. Just like /etc/passwd is the local file which can supplement NIS or LDAP account info, /etc/hosts can supplement NIS/LDAP host resolution. And yes, it's done, usually in Windows-centric (Active Directory) setups that want to use WINS and ADS without having to set up DNS. > AFTER seb had written the dns procotol handling that came to mind and i > suggested it... but i have to say i respect seb's work on doing th edns > protocol handling and reading the rfc's etc. and i dont see just nuking the > code as good. i am leaving it in seb's hands for now. it needs completeness > handling. i dont see ldap/nis/yp as usefully worth implementing and if you > happen to have a system with these setups - then fall back to blocking > gethostbyname is an option :) something about a librarye forking off child > processes seems a bit evil to me - and thus i hesitate on it. but then again > re-implementing dns is evil too :) Yeah, it's a lesser of two evils thing. The problem with the current method is that the standard dictates checking nsswitch *before* doing the lookup and potentially not using DNS at all. Honestly I think forking a new process/thread (just fork(), no exec(), maybe vfork() if possible?) is cleaner than trying to re-implement not only DNS but nsswitch too. > that's possible - but its a service that has to sit around and be > managed. i'd much sooenr go with the fork off a child to dns lookup > via gethostbyname then punt the retuned data via fd back to the > parent method long before this :) Fair enough. :) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I want to stand with you on a mountain. I want to bathe with you in the sea. I want to lay like this forever, until the sky falls down on me." -- Savage Garden, "Truly, Madly, Deeply" ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
