thanks. I needed to know this because I need to defend my report for my school (Hogeschool Zuyd) which is about the implemention of OpenLDAP in Exchange4linux (check www.exchange4linux.org) greets Geert -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Voglmaier, Reinhard Erich [mailto:rv33100@gsk.com] Verzonden: maandag 12 januari 2004 15:29 Aan: 'Geert Reijnders';openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org Onderwerp: RE: o and c or dc? 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
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