BTW, I also tried changing to the actual ip address of the server, but that did not work either.
[root@ldapServer openldap]# diff ldap.conf.070210 ldap.conf 11c11 < URI ldap://127.0.0.1/ ---
URI ldap://192.168.150.133/
[root@ldapServer ~]# service ldap restart Stopping slapd: [ OK ] Checking configuration files for slapd: config file testing succeeded [ OK ] Starting slapd: [ OK ]
[root@ldapServer ~]# ldapsearch -x ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
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