For many sites, running one or more slapds that hold an entire subtree of data is sufficient. But sometimes it may be desirable to have one slapd refer to other slapds for a certain part of the tree. This can be accomplished by creating a referral entry in one slapd's database pointing to another slapd. (For those familiar with X.500, a slapd referral entry is similar to an X.500 knowledge reference.)
A sample distributed slapd service is shown in ``Distributed slapd configuration''.
Distributed slapd configuration