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You can use the same mechanism to redirect queries to a different server that uses
a different namespace. For example, an employee working in the Italian office of
example.com
phone number of an
the directory follows:
ldap://europe.example.com:389/ou=US employees,dc=example,dc=com
The following diagram illustrates how the referral works:
Finally, if you serve multiple suffixes on the same server, you can redirect queries
from one namespace to another namespace served on the same machine. If you
want to redirect all queries on the local machine for
dc=example,dc=com
o=example,c=us
ldap:///dc=example,dc=com
The third slash in this LDAP URL indicates that the URL points to the same
Directory Server.
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Corporation makes a request to the European directory for the
employee in America. The referral returned by
example.com
, then you would put the following smart referral on the
entry:
to
o=example,c=us