Re: Referral Vs Alias

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

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At 12:31 AM 10/11/00 +0800, Simon Yuen \(New\) wrote:
>Hi,
> 
>I learnt from "Howes, Development LDAP..." that referrals can point to entities in other location. With referrals, you can search the subtree in localhost and other machines.
> 
>However, I saw "Sun JNDI tutorial" that alias can point to an entity. And the searhing can be set with options "never, always....". I am very confuesd with the usage of them. Could anyone help me to solve my problem, please?
> 
> 
>Q1. What are the difference between alias and referral?
>Q2. If I search the entity in the same directory in the localhost, which one should I choose? Is alias better?
>Q3. If alias are used in localhost directory, doesn't it need to make any connection to the server like referral?   
> 
>Yours,
>Simon