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> The main author for this module is Norbert Sendetzky who also has his own <A
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>Native</TD
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> As of 2.9.6, PowerDNS comes with an LDAP backend. The code for this was submitted by Norbert Sendetzky.
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> The following settings are available to configure the LDAP backend:
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>ldap-host</DT
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> LDAP host to connect to, defaults to localhost.
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> LDAP port to connect to, defaults to 389.
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>ldap-basedn</DT
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> Root for DNS searches. Must be configured before the LDAP backend will work.
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>ldap-binddn</DT
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> Distinguished Name to bind with to the LDAP server. Defaults to the empty string for anonymous bind.
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> Secret to bind with to LDAP server. Defaults to the empty string for anonymous bind.
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> TTL for records with no dnsttl attribute. Defaults to 86400 seconds.
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> The schema used is that defined by RFC 1279 and is present in OpenLDAP under the name 'cosine.schema'.
An example LDIF file:
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># zone related things including SOA, NS and MX records
dn: dc=example
objectclass: top
objectclass: dnsdomain
objectclass: domainrelatedobject
dc: example
soarecord: ns.example.dom hostmaster@example.dom 2002010401 1800 3600 604800 84600
nsrecord: ns.example.dom
mxrecord: 10 mail.example.dom
mxrecord: 20 mail2.example.dom
associateddomain: example.dom
# Simple record (mail.example.dom has address 172.168.0.2)
dn: dc=mail,dc=example
objectclass: top
objectclass: dnsdomain
objectclass: domainrelatedobject
dc: mail
arecord: 172.168.0.2
associateddomain: mail.example.dom
# There may more than one entry per record
# This is also applicable to all other records including "associateddomain"
# but not for a CNAME record
dn: dc=server,dc=snapcount
objectclass: top
objectclass: dnsdomain
objectclass: domainrelatedobject
dc: server
arecord: 10.1.0.1
arecord: 172.168.0.1
associateddomain: server.example.dom
# domain alias ({mail2,ns}.example.dom is CNAME for server.example.dom)
# cnamerecord must only contain one entry
dn: dc=backup,dc=snapcount
objectclass: top
objectclass: dnsdomain
objectclass: domainrelatedobject
dc: server
cnamerecord: server.example.dom
associateddomain: mail2.example.dom
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