Re: Referrals and Netscape 4.6

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

At 12:50 PM 2/9/00 +0100, Stig Venås wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 04:39:41PM +0200, De Martin Michele wrote:
>> Here is the LDIF by which I've populated the primary backend:
>> 
>> dn: dc=Sanita, dc=fvg, dc=it
>> objectclass: organization
>> o: Sanita
>> 
>> dn:
>> ref="ldap://directory.aots.sanita.fvg.it/dc=AOTS,dc=Sanita,dc=fvg,dc=it";,
>> dc=Sanita, dc=fvg, dc=it
>> objectclass: referral
>> ref: ldap://directory.aots.sanita.fvg.it/dc=AOTS,dc=Sanita,dc=fvg,dc=it
>> ...
>> 
>> When I do an ldapsearch on the root suffix I get the right results:
>
>I really don't understand how you and others get this to work, whatever
>I do (I've tried to do exact the same, only with other values), I only
>get LDAPv2 referrals with just the host part, like
>
>conn=4 op=5 SEARCH RESULT tag=101 err=9 text=Referral:
>ldap://directory.aots.sanita.fvg.it

That's a default referral as opposed to a search reference.
OpenLDAP 1.2 provides LDAPv2+ referrals to superiors and will
return search references to subordinates, but will not general
subordinate referrals.

>How do I configure which versions of OpenLDAP to get proper referrals
>including the dn? It seems like many are doing this, but I can't.
>I've been trying with 1.2 and devel, and searching with ldapsearch.
>I could go into more details, but it looks like I'm missing something
>elementary.

OpenLDAP 1.2 provides LDAPv2++ referrals to superiors and will
return search references to subordinates, but will not general
subordinate referrals.