Victor Duchovni: > Because I am not thinking about normal loads that don't matter. One > needs to survive hostile loads. > > > > LDAP tables are supported and not discouraged, but high volume sites > > > may want to dedicate some LDAP replicas to MTA queries. > > > > I'm not discouraging anyone from using LDAP queries. I merely made the > > case that many times RAV is a better choice, and stated some reasons why. > > The reasons are not valid under hostile conditions.
Stan, if your server is connected to the internet, then your worst case will become your common case. Therefore it is a mistake to optimize the common case. Wietse