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Monday Jul 09, 2007

New DNS service

The NYTimes today reviews a new DNS service called OpenDNS
I configured my computer to use OpenDNS's DNS servers and one immediate benefit is that typos in the browser address bar are optionally redirected to the correct destination website.

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Posted at 07:35AM Jul 09, 2007 by Jonathan Gershater in Identity & Directory Server | Comments[4]

Comments:

Glad you are enjoying are service so far. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions. Cool to know smart folks are still working on LDAP these days, making it easier to use and integrate. :-)

Posted by David Ulevitch on July 09, 2007 at 12:15 PM PDT #

David, check out OpenDS, Sun's OpenSource LDAP initiative. Please download and participate! https://opends.dev.java.net/

Posted by Jonathan Gershater on July 09, 2007 at 04:28 PM PDT #

Last time I played with LDAP was with OpenLDAP and then I went home to simultaneously cry and slide metal rods under my fingernails to try and erase the pain of installing OpenLDAP. I will give it a try. I've been meaning to try http://directory.fedoraproject.org/ also. Have you seen a comparison of the two anywhere or would I be the first? Or are they not comparable? (pardon my ignorance, I haven't read up very much on either, yet)

Posted by David Ulevitch on July 09, 2007 at 04:51 PM PDT #

Hi David, The Fedora Directory is based on the old iPlanet Directory codebase that was jointly done by Sun-AOL-Netscape. It really doesn't compare the ground up redesign of OpenDS let alone our current DS 6.x series. Check out these entries from one of our OpenDS architect's blog http://blogs.sun.com/DirectoryManager/entry/opends_and_other_sun_sponsored http://blogs.sun.com/DirectoryManager/entry/a_comparison_of_opends_and This should have the details you are looking for. HTH...

Posted by Wayne Abbott on July 10, 2007 at 08:36 AM PDT #