<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 15, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Munroe Sollog wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I am investigating using the dlz-ldap driver to store my zone file in<br>ldap. Before doing so, it seems that the official driver page had less<br>than stellar things to say about the ldap driver. <br><br>Is anyone using LDAP as a backend? Are you happy with the performance?<br><br>Is there a future for LDAP and Bind?<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I played around with DLZ using OpenLDAP. (At the same time I worked with the MySQL DLZ drivers too.) I work with Macintoshes mainly and LDAP is the standard way that the Mac manages information. This seems to be a natural fit.</div><div><br></div><div>I would tell you, BIND using LDAP over DLZ simply sucks. It is so horribly slow that it makes it unusable. Running "queryperf" against this server made you wonder if there was something really wrong with the system.</div><br><div>I would state that BIND using an LDAP backend is a nice "proof of concept" but it does not make sense for any production system.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill Larson</div></body></html>