RE: DN of a SearchResultReference

["Volpers, Helmut" <helmut.volpers@icn.siemens.de>]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Sermersheim [mailto:jimse@novell.com]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 16. November 2000 19:25
> To: ietf-ldapbis@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: DN of a SearchResultReference
> 
> 
> In RFC 2251, section 4.5.3, it says:
> "The name of an unexplored subtree in a SearchResultReference 
> need not be subordinate to the base object." 
> 
> I suspect this has something to do with the server having 
> knowledge of indexing information, but I'm not sure. 
> Can/should this sentence be clarified?

I think this is the case if anywhere in the baseobject or below the
baseobject 
an alias which points in  another part of the tree the dereferenced name 
will be returned in the SearchResultReference.

Helmut