On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:45:19 PDT, just me said: > > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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....
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