RE: Referral chasing when using ldap_search()

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Christine
> Robertson

> I have a set of directories with dc=cordoors,dc=com as the base
> suffix, and referrals to other suffixes such as dc=aus,dc=cordoors,dc=com
> and dc=us,dc=cordoors,dc=coms, which live in different directories
> on the same host (all in the same slapd.conf, all in the right order).

By the way, since all of your subtrees are on the same server, in the same
slapd.conf, you may want to look into using the backend-glue feature of
OpenLDAP 2.1. This lets slapd manage the interconnection itself; the client
never sees
a referral, it just sees a single integrated tree.

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