I am just stopping by to say that this is actually a thing. It is called hesiod and works great in small, maybe air-gapped networks.
As a side note, anything security related exists in the reality of uncertainty. It is expected that sharing properly secured secrets is reasonably safe, but day after day we discover "we didn't know". Sometimes simplicity for a particular application is worth certain amount of risk.
Sometimes, you need to take the server out of its box, out of the bunker, and plug it to both the power distribution network, and of course... a LAN...
As a side note, anything security related exists in the reality of uncertainty. It is expected that sharing properly secured secrets is reasonably safe, but day after day we discover "we didn't know". Sometimes simplicity for a particular application is worth certain amount of risk.
Sometimes, you need to take the server out of its box, out of the bunker, and plug it to both the power distribution network, and of course... a LAN...
For quick reference: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod_(name_service) - https://jpmens.net/2012/06/28/hesiod-a-lightweight-directory...