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Re: DNS information in LDAP

Never thought of building my zone tables via LDAP before. My zones are just screwy enough where that sounds like something I should do as well.

The draft I presume you are refering to is the miller-dns-ldap-schema draft. You might try emailing him directly. His email, as given in the draft memo is Tom_Miller@novell.com.

On the other hand, the ultimate purpose behind the drafts is to provide an agreed upon standard so that everybody does it the same way. That means we each don't re-invent the wheel, and that vendors and OpenSource folks can write and distribute tools and have some confidence that their user base will actually be able to use it. To a large degree, that's wishful thinking, but it makes things alot more similar than if no standard existed at all.

But at this point, no standard exists, and you're going to have to grow your own no matter what -- so simply do it. If a standard should emerge within the next few years and after that, standardized tools, you can re-evaluate. If what you've designed is doing everything that you need and portability is not an issue, don't worry about it. If otherwise, nothing prevents you from migrating from one system to the other. And in the meantime, you'll have had something in place that made your life much easier. (I'm assuming, of course, that your needs here are in-house.)

-- Rob

--On Wednesday, July 12, 2000 8:44 AM -0700 Dan Rich <drich@employees.org> wrote:


Has anyone setup an LDAP schema for holding DNS zone and host information?
I've found a couple of expired drafts that discuss schemas for doing this,
but nothing recent.  Given the choice, I'd rather not have to do this from
scratch if I can avoid it.

My main goal is to place everything I would need to build my DNS zone
files into LDAP.  This would allow for easy maintainence (via. one of the
existing LDAP web tools), and it should be fairly trivial to develop
scripts that would pull the data and actually build the zone files.

Any ideas?

--
Dan Rich <drich@employees.org> |   http://www.employees.org/~drich/
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 Rob Tanner
 UNIX and Networks Manager
 Linfield College, McMinnville OR
 (503) 434-2558 <rtanner@linfield.edu>