Re: DNSSRV (was: Splitting directory over backends)

["Mark H. Wood" <mwood@IUPUI.Edu>]

On 11 Sep 2002, Adam Williams wrote:
> >Just curious: How many domains have a SRV RR _ldap._tcp.<domain> so that
> >it's worth thinking about offloading root.openldap.org?
>
> On the public side?  We don't, but I'd certainly be willing to add one
> if somebody actually wrote something that used it.  This sounds very
> interesting.

Well, the number will be somewhat larger than the number of ADS domains
hooked to the public network, since every one of them is dependent on SRV
RRs to locate their own LDAP and Kerberos services.  OTOH a lot of those
may be firewalled.

Surely *someone* has set up spiders to collect such statistics.

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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
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