Chaining

One more question, this time on the chaining overlay. "What is chaining? It indicates the capability of a DSA to follow referrals on behalf of the client, so that distributed systems are viewed as a single virtual DSA by clients that are otherwise unable to "chase" (i.e. follow) referrals by themselves." In the example shown at http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/overlays.html#Chaining Is the chaining overlay example used to forward write requests from the syncrepl slaves to the master server? -Jorge