Re: draft-ietf-dnsext-apl-rr-01.txt

[Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:13:56AM -0500, Mike Burns wrote:
> There is already a service that is used for user information and it =
> does not require any knowledge of containers or server location.  
> Finger is used to retrieve user information based on email address.  
> DNS is supposed to be a small, lightweight, quick program.  If we include 
> a large amount of information in the data for DNS, the resulting searches 
> will become slower.

While doing the NAPTR stuff I was walking this line very closely.
My rule of thumb is that DNS should be used for pointing to services
that actually contains the data your interested in but never should
the actual data be in DNS....

For the LDAP folks, take a look at www.ldap.research.netsol.com for some 
ideas on how to get around the 'disconnected islands' aspect of LDAP. Its not
a true LDAP directory becauses its insanely expensive to search 
the entire tree. 

-MM

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