Newbie question: What does NS stand for?

[Tom]

A lot of config options, for example nsslapd-sizelimit, start with NS. 
What does NS stand for?

Thanks in advance for tolerating a newbie with OCD!

[William Brown]

>  On 20 Jan 2021, at 08:42, Tom <tom(a)foscore.com&gt; wrote:
>  
>  A lot of config options, for example nsslapd-sizelimit, start with NS. What does NS stand
> for? 
NetScape! A lot of the directory server code originally was part of netscape and then had
some adventures going through SUN, AOL and finally Red Hat and OpenSource.

This is contrast to NS in macos (nextstep) and nsswitch (name-service switch) or ns
(nanoseconds) or any of the other overloaded meanings that NS has in our world.

>  
>  Thanks in advance for tolerating a newbie with OCD! 
Absolutely - Happy to have you here, and if you have any more questions about 389-ds or
related topics, please let us know!

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[Marc Sauton]

and nsds50 stands for Netscape Directory Server 5.0 as it became
iPlanet Directory Server 5.0  in the 2001 time frame with major new
features, like: MMR / Multi Master Replication !
hence the famous nsds50ruv records and other replication agreement
attributes with the nsds50 prefix string.
probably having the version number was somehow important at that time.
https://web.archive.org/web/20010924091521/http://docs.iplanet.com/docs/m...
another blast from the past:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980507023609/http://help.netscape.com/produ...
the page at https://www.port389.org/docs/389ds/FAQ/history.html has some
information.
M.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 2:53 PM William Brown <wbrown(a)suse.de&gt; wrote:

>  > On 20 Jan 2021, at 08:42, Tom <tom(a)foscore.com&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > A lot of config options, for example nsslapd-sizelimit, start with NS.
>  What does NS stand for?
>
>  NetScape! A lot of the directory server code originally was part of
>  netscape and then had some adventures going through SUN, AOL and finally
>  Red Hat and OpenSource.
>
>  This is contrast to NS in macos (nextstep) and nsswitch (name-service
>  switch) or ns (nanoseconds) or any of the other overloaded meanings that NS
>  has in our world.
>
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance for tolerating a newbie with OCD!
>
>  Absolutely - Happy to have you here, and if you have any more questions
>  about 389-ds or related topics, please let us know!
>
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>
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>
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