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You redirect all requests on this branch to the
office of
example.com
entry itself. This smart referral appears as follows:
ldap://europe.example.com:389/ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
Any requests made to people branch of the American directory are redirected to
the European directory. An illustration of this smart referral follows:
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
Corporation makes a request to the European directory for the phone
example.com
number of a
example.com
directory follows:
ldap://europe.example.com:389/ou=US employees,dc=example,dc=com
The following diagram illustrates how the referral works:
Corporation by specifying a smart referral on the
employee in America. The referral returned by the
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branch of the European
ou=people
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ou=people
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