chandra(a)sentienthealth.com wrote: Seems to be related to filter parsing, but we don't get any logging about the filter, and there's too little information to detect what's the issue. You might add "packets" to the log level to see what actually gets sent along with the request (beware that log level will be very verbose, then), and post the output concerning the sole initiation of the search request up to the hang. p. Ing. Pierangelo Masarati OpenLDAP Core Team SysNet s.r.l. via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA http://www.sys-net.it --------------------------------------- Office: +39 02 23998309 Mobile: +39 333 4963172 Email: pierangelo.masarati(a)sys-net.it ---------------------------------------