RE: draft-ietf-ldapext-locate-01.txt - Discovering LDAP Services with DNS

[Bruce Greenblatt <bgreenblatt@directory-applications.com>]

At 10:40 AM 1/20/00 -0800, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
[snip]
>So here's the pitch:
>
>  (1)  you need to glue together DSAs somehow
>  (2)  doing this with records in the DIT is possible, but hasn't yet
>       proven effective globally
>  (3)  DNS SRV records can be used for this
>  (4)  this takes advantage of globally-deployed DNS
>  (5)  it only works (so far) for directory objects with DNS-based names, 
>       but that's OK since we're already familiar with DNS-based names.
>

As far as I can tell this isn't correct.  This draft doesn't "glue" LDAP
servers together.  It presents an algorithm that helps you find one LDAP
server that will probably have an entry for the DN that you have.  So,
here's my pitch

(1) Sometimes you get a DN from places other than the LDAP server in which
the DN lives
(2) You need to find the LDAP server to get some other information about
the entry to which
    the DN refers, e.g. email address
(3)-(5) see above...

Bruce
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