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NAME
       slapd-dnssrv - DNS SRV referral backend to slapd

SYNOPSIS
       /etc/ldap/slapd.conf

DESCRIPTION
       The  DNSSRV  backend to slapd(8) serves up referrals based upon SRV re-
       source records held in the Domain Name System.

       This backend is experimental.

CONFIGURATION
       The DNSSRV backend has no backend nor database specific options.  It is
       configured  simply  by  "database  dnssrv" followed a suffix directive,
       e.g. suffix "".

ACCESS CONTROL
       The dnssrv backend does not honor all ACL  semantics  as  described  in
       slapd.access(5).   In fact, this backend only implements the search op-
       eration when the manageDSAit control (RFC 3296) is used, otherwise  for
       every  operation  a  referral, whenever appropriate, or an error is re-
       turned.  Currently, there is no means to condition the returning of the
       referral by means of ACLs; no access control is implemented, except for
       read (=r) access to the returned entries, which is actually provided by
       the  frontend.   Note,  however,  that the information returned by this
       backend is collected through the DNS, so it is public by definition.

FILES
       /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
              default slapd configuration file

SEE ALSO
       "OpenLDAP Root Service - An experimental LDAP  referral  service"  [RFC
       3088],
       "OpenLDAP LDAP Root Service" <http://www.openldap.org/faq/?file=393)>,
       slapd.conf(5), slapd(8)

OpenLDAP 2.5.13+dfsg-5            2022/07/14                   SLAPD-DNSSRV(5)

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