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Designing Your Directory Tree
For example, in an enterprise environment, you can organize your directory tree so
that it corresponds to the network names in your enterprise. Network names tend
not to change, so the directory tree structure will be stable. Further, using network
names to create the top level branches of your directory tree is useful when you use
replication to tie together different Directory Servers.
For instance, Corporation has three primary networks known as
example.com
, , and .
flightdeck.example.com tickets.example.com hanger.example.com
They initially branch their directory tree as follows:
After creating the initial structure of the tree, they create additional branches as
follows:
As another example, the ISP branches their directory as follows:
example.com
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