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Re: Referrals

At 03:15 PM 1/26/01 -0800, malyprogservices@flashmail.com wrote:
>Hi, I was wondering how to write a referral entry.

See: http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin/referrals.html

>I want to have a list
>of entries under "c=US,ou=Engineering,ou=People,dc=mvista,dc=com", as
>well as under "ou=Engineering,ou=People,c=US,dc=mvista,dc=com". I want a
>referral of the second dn to point to the first one. I think the
>refferal entry is something like:
>
>dn:ou=Engineering,ou=People,c=US,dc=mvista,dc=com
>objectClass:referral
>ref:ldap://SOMETHING
>
>If that format is wrong, please say so. Now, if I wanted to refer to the
>current host for the referral, how would I do that?
>ldap://localhost/<dn> doesn't work. I want to somehow refer to the local
>ldap server, (even though the client is somewhere else) because I have
>multiple servers and I don't want the referrals to all point to the
>master server (as is the case if I put a hostname in the URL). Any
>ideas?
>
>
>--
>Tomas Maly
>"IT Freak"
>MontaVista Software
>(408) 328-8429
>tmaly@mvista.com