Kristen Walker writes:
I am confused about how I have an empty dn. I am including my ldap.conf and slapd.conf as well as the ldif file I imported via the command line.
Maybe you first had a slapd.conf with suffix "", then imported the data, then edited slapd.conf to have the new suffix? Then slapcat will still dump the entire database, but ldapsearch & co can only get at entries whose DNs end with the new suffix.