I have installed nss_ldap-253-13.el5_2.1.i386 from sl-fastbugs and set ssl off (/etc/ldap.conf). I tested with bind_policy hard (/etc/ldap.conf) and the server still tries to connect to an ldap server before either interface lo or eth0 are up. I am looking at /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules to see if their are any device not in my /etc/group.??... (I'm still fishing for a solution.) Thanks... Robert Faye Gibbins wrote: > According to my man page (nss_ldap, admittedly on 5.0) ssl has these > options: > > ssl <on|off|start_tls> > > so "no" might be wrong. > > Yours > Faye > > Robert Burch wrote: > >> ssl no >