diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 78aefe037cb1fe6af9e7653476363bda5c909661..50f70c3d34148e86a511cced55e503325a67e902 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4.24 Engineering
 	Fixed contrib/nssov to only close socket on shutdown (ITS#6676)
 	Documentation
 		admin24 guide typo fixes (ITS#6609)
+		ldap_open(3) document ldap_set_urllist_proc (ITS#6601)
 
 OpenLDAP 2.4.23 Release (2010/06/30)
 	Fixed libldap to return server's error code (ITS#6569)
diff --git a/doc/man/man3/ldap_open.3 b/doc/man/man3/ldap_open.3
index f01487470d02de23fb2a4f66c82cc3b0606d6109..24bdae6d3e58227dd3bb5c0c103c05ce4ae16115 100644
--- a/doc/man/man3/ldap_open.3
+++ b/doc/man/man3/ldap_open.3
@@ -171,7 +171,19 @@ The function may manipulate the URI list; the typical use consists
 in moving the successful URI to the head of the list,
 so that subsequent attempts to connect to one of the URIs using the same LDAP handle
 will try it first.
-By default, this function is not defined.
+If
+.I ld
+is null,
+.I proc
+is set as a global parameter that is inherited by all handlers
+within the process that are created after the call to
+.BR ldap_set_urllist_proc() .
+By default, no 
+.I LDAP_URLLIST_PROC
+is set.
+In a multithreaded environment,
+.B ldap_set_urllist_proc()
+must be called before any concurrent operation using the LDAP handle is started.
 
 Note: the first call into the LDAP library also initializes the global
 options for the library. As such the first call should be single-threaded
diff --git a/doc/man/man3/ldap_open.3.links b/doc/man/man3/ldap_open.3.links
index d2f912c0b27bdf08b75b267bc2c26cf2a41b02ca..aa34ab761790ccfae01d03dd4ab089cd4df3e294 100644
--- a/doc/man/man3/ldap_open.3.links
+++ b/doc/man/man3/ldap_open.3.links
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 ldap_init.3
 ldap_initialize.3
+ldap_set_urllist_proc.3
+ldap_init_fd.3