[Pdns-users] Status of the LDAP backend in 3.0 release

[Nick Milas]

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On 24/3/2011 1:03 ΌΌ, Nick Milas wrote:
> On 03/24/2011 11:36 AM, Nick Milas wrote:
>> On 24/3/2011 10:11 πΌ, Angel Bosch Mora wrote:
>>
>>> what about a community donation?
>>>
>>> we could create a ticket with all people interested in this feature
>>> and how much can they contribute.
>>>
>>> i think there's more people than we thing using LDAP backend.
>>
>> I like the idea. Such an announcement could be published to the ldap
>> communities too.
>>
>> However, it strikes me that, although I have repeatedly published about
>> the issue in this list, no one has expressed interest (you are the first
>> one). Yet, I believe that there must be out there at least some
>> people/organizations who use or would be interested in using the LDAP
>> backend. (Googling for powerdns/ldap will reveal at least some activity
>> in the recent or earlier past.)
>>
>> I find it a pity to put the LDAP backend (which I have mentioned in the
>> past that is one of the virtues of powerdns vs other software) to
>> unmaintained status.
>>
>> How can this be initiated? Has this be done in the past in the powerdns
>> project?
>
> Well, this entire thing might just be that no all people interested in
> the LDAP backend are actively following the mailing list (like myself :-)
>
> However, we are using the LDAP backend as well for our couple of
> PowerDNS servers and would suffer much from dropping LDAP support.
>
> On the other hand, I perfectly understand Bert's POV on the issue, so I
> what I can offer is taking a look on the open issues and maybe - if time
> allows - putting some manpower to it, but I will first have a look at
> the issues myself.
>
> Regards
>
> Udo Rader
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