RE: aliased bases

["Luke Howard" <lukeh@xedoc.com.au>]

> I maybe talking out of context here, but if I understand right.
> You can acheive this by "Smart referals". This is part of
> LDAP v3 spec. Should be available in RFC2251.
> Basically you configure a suffix dc=myo,dc=myc to refer to
> o=myo,c=my c.

But: there's an extra round trip while you chase the referral, and the
entries you're referred to will still have the o=myc,o=myc suffix.

If the intention is to present a naming context on a single server under a
number of different names, then aliased bases may be preferable.


-- Luke