--On Thursday, February 09, 2006 1:30 AM -0500 John Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

If I have an entry:
dn: dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: dcObject
dc: example
o: My example

Assuming my DNS name is example.com. In section 4 of RFC2247, it refers to
dc as "The value of this attribute is a string holding one component of a
domain name.". It seems to me that "dc: example" means we are mapping the
DNS name "example.com" to the directory's dn: dc=example,dc=com. Is this
the true?

If this is true, then my next question is, since we are mapping
example.com to dn: dc=example,dc=com, it makes sense to have
dc=example.com, rather than dc=example, right? (I understand the RFC2247
says it holds ONE component). Obviously, I am missing something.

It holds one component of the domain name. "example" is one component. "com" is another component. Hence "dc=example,dc=com".

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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