On 6/30/05, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Elliot F wrote: > > Another method (and a very scalable one) would be to store user data in DNS. > > Ooh, don't suggest that sort of thing on a DNS admin list unless you really > like > having a cheese grater rubbed on all your private parts. That is a gross > violation of the design of DNS (but of course I can think of an elegant way to > do it with a tinydns instance ;-).
PowerDNS appears to be proud that it uses a database for a DNS server backend. If that doesn't invite publishing user data by DNS I'll be plunged into syrup and called a hotcake. I am not aware of a standard LDAP->DNS translation mechanism, but I would not be surprised if several exist.
