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A server running the LDAP service searches directories in the following order to process LDAP search requests:

1. A server's primary IBM® Domino® Directory, unless the primary Domino Directory is configured in a directory assistance database used by the server and has the option Make this domain available to: LDAP clients deselected

2. A Domino Directory or extended directory catalog that is configured in a server's directory assistance with the option Make this domain available to: LDAP clients selected

Note: If an LDAP user does not specify a search base, which is a distinguished name used to indicate the directory location at which to begin a search, the LDAP service searches the Domino directories and/or extended directory catalog according to the search orders assigned to the directories. The LDAP service searches directories with no assigned search orders alphabetically according to their specified domain names.

Note: If an LDAP user specifies a search base, only directories assigned naming rules that correspond to the search base are searched. If there is more than one directory assigned a naming rule that matches, the directory with the most specific matching rule is searched first. For example, if a user specifies the search base ou=Sales,o=Renovations, the server first searches a directory with the rule /Sales/Renovations, before searching a directory with the rule */Renovations. If directories have identical naming rules that match the search base specified by the user, search orders assigned to these directories determine the order in which the directories are searched.

Related concepts
Directory search order
Planning directory services in a multiple-directory environment
Directory services terms

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