Full_Name: Scott Atchley Version: 2.0.11 OS: Linux 2.4 URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (24.159.185.208) Please ignore ITS 1257, I figured it out. Our labstaff used the default RH 7.1 install which blocks low-level ports. Bind was working on AF_LOCAL only. Bind failed on AF_INET. Strace pointed this out to me. As soon as I run slapd at a high port number, all is well. Scott