Replication, partitions and referrals

[DEVRIENDT ERIK <erik.devriendt@siemens.com>]

Hi all,

I have following set up:

An LDAP DIT partitioned in three parts.

     dc=example,dc=com
     |
     ou=Part1top
     |
     +- ou=Part1data
     |
     +- ou=Part2Top
     |       |
     |       ou=Part2data
     |
     +- ou=Part3Top
             | 
             ou=Part3data

So we have partitions with roots in
  ou=Part1top,dc=example,dc=com
  ou=Part2top,ou=Part1top,dc=example,dc=com
  ou=Part3top,ou=Part1top,dc=example,dc=com
     
3 LDAP servers, each is master of one partition, and each is replica of the
two
others.

Server1 : Part1 master
          Part2 replica
          Part3 replica

Server2 : Part1 replica
          Part2 master
          Part3 replica

Server2 : Part1 replica
          Part2 replica
          Part3 master

Each server thus contains the complete DIT.

The question:
How do arrange the referral objects pointing to Part2top and Part3top in
Part1 such
that clients doing a full tree search do not get referred to another server?

Is this possible ? If not, what is the value then to have replicas of
multiple
partitions on a server ?

Thanks for reading this. 

Erik Devriendt
Erik.Devriendt@siemens.com