Hi , I am a developer and I have set up openldap2.4.12 and wrote an ldap client in C using the ldap C sdk. Over lan everything looks fine but when I try to connect and do the same thing over an external IP it fails saying ldap_bind_s :Can;t contact ldap server(-1). The server runnign with d127 shows " error:broken pipe connection reset by peer " Could you please help me? Thanks Sankhadip