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# Copyright 1999, The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved.
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# COPYING RESTRICTIONS APPLY, see COPYRIGHT.
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H1: Distributing {{I: slapd}} DATA
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For many sites, running one or more {{I: slapds}} that hold an
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entire subtree of data is sufficient. But sometimes it may be
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desirable to have one slapd refer to other {{I: slapds}} for a
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certain part of the tree. This can be accomplished by
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creating a referral entry in one {{I:slapd}}'s database pointing
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to another {{I: slapd}}. For those familiar with X.500, a {{I:slapd}}
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{{I: referral}} entry is similar to an X.500 knowledge reference.
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The referral entry acts as a mount point, glueing two slapd
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databases together. A referral entry has an {{I: objectclass}} of
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"referral" and is named by a {{I: ref}} attribute containing a URL
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pointing to the slapd holding the data below the mount
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point. This mechanism is very general and allows slapd
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databases that are not normally hierarchical to be grafted
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together.
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An example should help illustrate things. Suppose your
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company is running a slapd and just purchased a new
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company, also running a slapd. You can easily connect
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the two databases by creating an entry like this in your
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slapd's database.
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E: dn: ref="ldap://new.host/o=New Company,c=US", o=Your
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company, c=US
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E: objectclass: referral
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Now any subtree search that has this entry in its scope
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will return a referral to the new company, in addition to any
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entries matched in your database. Referral-aware clients
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will continue the search at the new company's server.
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A mechanism similar to this is used to support distributed
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indexing, described in Appendix C.
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