LDAP Hangs on request

[Yossef Korang <yossef@yossefk.com>]

I'm not sure what the problem is, other than it simply hanging on a 
client machine.  I have LDAP running smoothly on the master(for 
authentication), but when I enable it on the client side, and make the 
adjustment to /etc/nsswitch.conf to be "hosts files ldap", and if I try 
to "finger" a  user(or login, etc), it just hangs there on client and 
master side.  

Any help or point to a previous answered question dealing with this(that 
I have not yet found in the archives) would be appreciated.

Thanks