or
.BR ldapi ,
which refer to LDAP over TCP, LDAP over SSL (TLS) and LDAP
-over local sockets, respectively.
+over IPC (UNIX domain sockets), respectively.
Each server's name can be specified as a
domain-style name or an IP address literal. Optionally, the
server's name can followed by a ':' and the port number the LDAP
server is listening on. If no port number is provided, the default
port for the scheme is used (389 for ldap://, 636 for ldaps://).
-For LDAP over local sockets,
+For LDAP over IPC,
.B name
is the name of the socket, and no
.B port
-is allowed; note that directory separators must be URL-encoded,
-like any other characters that are special to URLs; so the socket
+is required, nor allowed; note that directory separators must be
+URL-encoded, like any other characters that are special to URLs;
+so the socket
/usr/local/var/ldapi