BGP to doom us all

Mon Mar 3 16:29:42 UTC 2003

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