17 Jul
2007
17 Jul
'07
4:38 a.m.
i get the same result with the ldap service stopped on started.
Well, that doesn't make much sense. (I assume you mean "stopped or started," and a stopped slapd should result in a refused connection.) Are you sure you don't have any firewall/SELinux/etc. in the way?
Regardless, run slapd with -d option as described in Admin Guide (trace level perhaps). Start up a window with the slapd -d and another with your openssl and/or ldapsearch client, and see how/if the slapd process reacts to the incoming packets.