Hi Kenneth, Sorry for the (slightly) delayed reply.
Your arguments are valid; I hope that LDAP PDNS community can find a way to cooperate to at least succeed in maintaining the LDAP backend (even without adding much new functionality - as DNSSEC -, at this stage). I have earlier mentioned that I am eager to do testing and contribute in any way I can, but, unfortunately, I currently don't have the expertise to do programming at this level.
Does anyone here have enough expertise (with programming and code development management) and a little time to take the lead in providing fixes for the few known bugs / important missing features of the LDAP backend? [A quick list: Issue 313 (associated with 317) for which there is already a proposal; issue 323 (which is the same with 260 as I later found); issue 318 (on which a discussion was made here: http://www.mail-archive.com/pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com/msg03357.html and I am confident that a solution can be found). ]
I am afraid that we can't address professional services; we are a small non-profit organization with a very tiny budget and a totally different field of work.
As a final note, I would like to repeat that I believe the PowerDNS LDAP backend is an important asset for the whole project, offering a much more viable solution than other DNS/LDAP software (which mainly don't offer native/mainstream LDAP support) and it would be a pity to become outdated/unsupported.
I hope this thread can trigger some activity on this matter (that's why I changed the subject).
All the best, Nick On 26/1/2011 4:17 μμ, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
Hi Nick, I think that the major benefit of PowerDNS is its ability to support a wide range of database backends, including LDAP through Norbert's work. Each of the various backends support some, most or all of the features of pdns, depending on their individual driver. The available features are listed in the documentation provided for each module. If there is a desire to continue the development for the LDAP backend, then the users of the backend should work together to provide resources for improving it. I would rather see a focus on the core SQL based backends from Bert, and let others vote with their pocketbooks and development resources to see which backends will support new features. I believe that consulting and professional services are available from powerdns.com should you wish to engage them directly. I look forward to seeing what the PDNS/LDAP community provide in terms of updates to the LDAP backend. If nothing is forthcoming, it is certainly a straightforward process to change backends to a more core backend. That is the true benefit and versatility of the PDNS server. Regards, Ken
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