From 55d21236d14efead51851477efe60a3e1698e022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierangelo Masarati <ando@openldap.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:43:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] comment a useful feature of using URIs

---
 doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5 | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5
index 7a70dddeeb..398ef24b27 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-ldap.5
@@ -37,7 +37,14 @@ modification should not be used, as they could be passed to the target
 servers, generating an error.
 .TP
 .B uri <ldapurl>
-LDAP server to use.
+LDAP server to use.  Multiple URIs can be set in in a single
+.B ldapurl
+argument, resulting in the underlying library automatically 
+call the first server of the list that responds, e.g. 
+
+\fBuri "ldap://host/ ldap://backup-host"\fP
+
+The URI list is space- or comma-separated.
 .TP
 .B server <hostport>
 Obsolete option; same as `uri ldap://<hostport>/'.
-- 
2.39.5