diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 81bab46b26..bf1e162ccc 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Changes included in OpenLDAP 1.2 Release Engineering
 	Fixed ldbm db_appinit to use u_int32_t instead of int (ITS#295)
 	Fixed lber/io.c Cray T90 specific pointer arithmetic problem (ITS#325)
 	Added TCP_NODELAY support
+	Change slapd.conf default referral
 	Documentation
 		Reference Quick Start Guide in README and INSTALL
 		ldappasswd(1) fix -c vs -H typo (ITS#154)
diff --git a/servers/slapd/slapd.conf b/servers/slapd/slapd.conf
index 162cd79537..44a69ec789 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/slapd.conf
+++ b/servers/slapd/slapd.conf
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 include		%SYSCONFDIR%/slapd.at.conf
 include		%SYSCONFDIR%/slapd.oc.conf
 schemacheck	off
-#referral	ldap://ldap.itd.umich.edu
+#referral	ldap://root.openldap.org/
 
 pidfile		%LOCALSTATEDIR%/slapd.pid
 argsfile	%LOCALSTATEDIR%/slapd.args