ldapadd says "no such object"

[Hanasaki <hanasaki@microlink.net>]

I have setup opendap.org's current version as of 4/20/1999.  the
platform is a sun box with the current version of SunOS.  I dont have
the exacte ver number.

All seems well until I try

ldapadd -f entry

entry is a file with basically the same information as the example in
the man pages.  The only changes I have made are to the suffix and
rootdn.  The rootdn is the same as the suffix with the addition of a
cn:  blah entry.

ldapadd comes back with "No such object".

can anyone provide input?

TIA