Re: LDAP Clients Using DNS to Find LDAP Servers

Scott Williamson (scottw@internic.net)
Sat, 31 Aug 1996 07:42:14 -0400

Paul Vixie and Arnt Gulbrandsen have also posted a draft on the subject. It
that takes a generic approach to identifying services.

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-gulbrandsen-dns-rr-srvcs-03.txt

Scott

At 08:57 AM 8/30/96 -0700, Jeff.Hodges@Stanford.edu wrote:
>> Has anyone given any thought to using DNS to store the
>> location of LDAP servers,
>
>Yes. See...
>
> A Scalable, Deployable, Directory Service Framework for the Internet,
> Timothy A. Howes & Mark C. Smith, April 28, 1995, CITI Technical Report
> 95-7
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> http://info.isoc.org:80/HMP/PAPER/173/html/paper.html
>
>
>I'm sure Tim & Mark can comment on the current status of this thread of work.
>
>Jeff
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