RE: o and c or dc?

["Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich" <rv33100@gsk.com>]

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actually there are three :

• the traditional style inherited from X.500: such as o=test,c=nl
• the DNS style: o=test.nl
• the domain component style: dc=test,dc=nl

the second one fits quite well in DNS lookup mechanisms, the third one is the one used very frequently. There's however ( imho ) no technical reason ( general vaild ) why to prefer one over the other. It depends heaviliy on your implementation and your IT infrastrucure,  .naming style , ....

 

best

reinhard

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Reijnders [mailto:reijnders@nlcom.nl]
Sent: lunedì 12 gennaio 2004 14.00
To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: o and c or dc?

 

Hi all

 

I'm setting up an OpenLDAP server and I found some installation/configuration guides on the internet. But there are 2 types which you can use for a suffix. You can use o and c (o=test ,c=nl) or dc (dc=test, dc=nl). What is the differance between those two or what are the advantages of each other.

 

I hope any one can inform me.

 

Regards

 

Geert