Re: Referral & alias

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

I wrote:
>At 10:27 AM 6/24/99 -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>>Needs to be:
>>
>>dn: ref="ldap://192.168.234.10/o=SUBORG,o=ORG";, o=ORG
>>objectclass: referral
>>ref: ldap://192.168.234.10/o=SUBORG,o=ORG
>>
>While this works, it's actually NOT correct.

The above referral IS correct.  I got a little ahead of
myself.

>Instead, you should add to the "o=ORG" backend, an entry
Don't do this (yet).
>
>        dn:     o=SUBORG, o=ORG
>        objectclass: referral
>        ref:    ldap://192.168.234.10/o=SUBORG,o=ORG
>
This happens to work in some cases because of a poor test
for the referral attribute in subtree searches (which is
what fooled me).  The first approach is the supported
mechanism.

Named referrals (the second approach) I am now implementing
for OpenLDAP 2.0.

Kurt