Re: DN question?

[Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> In relation to this, I'm curious about ou/o vs. dc.  We use uid=x, 
> cn=accounts,dc=stanford,dc=edu for example, rather than uid=x, 
> ??=accounts,ou=stanford,o=edu.  What are the pros/cons?  Is there a 
> particular reason to use one syntax over the other?

If you use dc based naming then you can determine the location of 
referral servers through SRV records in the DNS.

Cheers,

Simon.