diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
index e5e279af54..ec37ff98f8 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ no way to unambiguously resolve a DN.
 In this case, all the operations that require an unambiguous target
 selection will fail unless the DN is already cached or a default
 target has been set.
+Practical configurations may result as a combination of all the
+above scenarios.
 .SH ACLs
 Note on ACLs: at present you may add whatever ACL rule you desire
 to to the Meta (and LDAP) backends.