as a special {{referral}} object at the delegate point.
The referral object acts as a delegation point, gluing two services
together.
-This mechanism allows for hierarchical directory services to to be
+This mechanism allows for hierarchical directory services to be
constructed.
A referral object has a structural object class of
> objectClass: referral
> objectClass: extensibleObject
> dc: subtree
-> ref: ldap://b.example.net/dc=subtree,dc=example,dc=net/
+> ref: ldap://b.example.net/dc=subtree,dc=example,dc=net
The server uses this information to generate referrals and
search continuations to subordinate servers.
{{EX:referral}} directive. The value is a list of {{TERM:URI}}s
referring to superior directory services. For servers without
immediate superiors, such as for {{EX:a.example.net}} in the example
-above, the server can be configured to use directory service with
+above, the server can be configured to use a directory service with
{{global knowledge}}, such as the {{OpenLDAP Root Service}}
({{URL:http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=393}}).
> referral ldap://a.example.net/
-The server uses this information to generate referrals to
-operations acting upon operations not within or subordinate
+The server uses this information to generate referrals for
+operations acting upon entries not within or subordinate
to any of the naming contexts held by the server.
For those familiar with X.500, this use of the {{EX:ref}} attribute