ErlDir will be the package for holding the DNS and LDAP protocols and a few miscellenaous pieces that don;t quite fit in other places.
I already have the DNS packet encoding, decoding, compression and decompression routines written for the DNS server. I’ve even done some very simple communications work with it, although since DNS is based on UDP instead of TCP I’m still in the process of learning what the correct communications patterns are.
I’m planning on the DNS server being an authoritative and a caching DNS server along with the capability of doing DNS based black lists to enhance ErlMail.
The LDAP server will be using the built in ASN.1 modules (Thank you Erlang) for most of the hard work. The rest is mostly writing the data storage and communications. I intend that the LDAP server will become the central repository for many different type of information through all the applications that use the Erlang Internet Framework.
I personally plan on using LDAP for the user and configuration information for ErlMail and ErlWeb which will simplify the process of creating, removing and changing users that will use a web based email client.
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