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Chapter 5. Designing the Directory Topology
Figure 5.7. Using Smart Referrals to Redirect Requests
The same mechanism can be used to redirect queries to a different server that uses a different
namespace. For example, an employee working in the Italian office of Example Corp. makes a
request to the European directory service for the phone number of an Example Corp. employee in
America. The directory service returns the referral ldap://europe.example.com:389/ou=US
employees,dc=example,dc=com.
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