RE: A web of directories

[Larry Layten <larry@xxxxxxx>]

Steve,

I thought that SRV records provided the means to advertise
a service to an address/port.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From:	Stephen Kent [SMTP:kent@bbn.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, February 24, 1999 11:24 AM
To:	Larry Layten
Cc:	Bob Jueneman; ietf-pkix@imc.org
Subject:	RE: A web of directories

Larry,

>For e-mail certificates, can't you use the domain from
>the internet e-mail address to point you to a DNS server
>And can't that in turn point you to the correct LDAP directory.

One can certainly look up the user's DNS server based on e-mail address,
but we don't have a record format in the DNS that points to an LDAP
directory as a result.  One could define such a record type, though.

Steve