[56328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP to doom us all
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Mar 3 11:30:23 2003
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 08:29:42 -0800
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: "Kuhtz, Christian" <christian.kuhtz@BellSouth.com>
From: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>
In-Reply-To: <DDA33D0260634241B611579903A174160363D14B@bremocLg>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 06:52 AM, Kuhtz, Christian wrote:
> Why not?
Well, it depends on what you want to use LDAP for.
For example, take a naive approach: your router crashes. It comes back
up. It receives 130,000 prefixes that it needs to validate. For each
prefix, your router must do an LDAP query.
> Can you be more specific as to why you think that LDAP is not
> suitable?
Relatively heavyweight connections and no caching.
Rgds,
-drc
