Those happy days when we distributed the equivalent of password files in the DNS via the IN HS (HESIOD) type. (Kerberos)
And then Sun went feral on Yellow pages/NIS and we all stopped loving each other anyway and now.. it's a lot more fragmented.
There are many deprecated RRtypes. "lets put it in the DNS" is a bit of a meme.
(use of past tense invites somebody to point out you can still run the code if you walk back in e.g. NetBSD sources but you might find widespread support for these RRtypes missing from a lot of things)
And then Sun went feral on Yellow pages/NIS and we all stopped loving each other anyway and now.. it's a lot more fragmented.
There are many deprecated RRtypes. "lets put it in the DNS" is a bit of a meme.
(use of past tense invites somebody to point out you can still run the code if you walk back in e.g. NetBSD sources but you might find widespread support for these RRtypes missing from a lot of things)