This is an attempt at an LDAP back-end for BIND 9 using the new simplified database interface "sdb". This is the fifth release (0.5) and is not ready for production use yet. Note that this version (and 0.4) uses a new schema and is not backwards compatible with versions before 0.4. The big changes in 0.5 are thread support and improved connection handling. Multiple threads can now access the back-end simultaneously, and rather than having one connection per zone, there is now one connection per thread per LDAP server. This should help people with multiple CPUs and people with a huge number of zones. One final change is support for literal IPv6 addresses in LDAP URLs. At least OpenLDAP 2 has IPv6 support, so if you use OpenLDAP 2 libraries and server, you got all you need. If you have bug reports, fixes, comments, questions or whatever, please contact me. See also http://www.venaas.no/ldap/bind-sdb/ for information. See INSTALL for how to build, install and use. Stig Venaas <venaas@uninett.no> 2001-05-06