Can you see the slapd daemon running? If yes, then are you running ldapsearch locally or remotely? If remotely, then do the usual...ping the servers IP to see if its alive. Could be network problem.
If your platform/network are fine but slapd does not start then you may have to recover your database. See the following link:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200403/msg00962.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Fonseca Mario [mailto:Mario.Fonseca@lbhf.gov.uk]
Sent: 08 September 2004 10:06
To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Can't contact LDAP server
Hi LDAP Gurus,
I'm new to LDAP and have a problem with an established LDAP system. Basically we have made no changes to any LDAP configuration files, but LDAP has stopped working. the replica's cannot communicate with the master server. when I try to run ldappassword or ldapsearch on the master I get:
ldap_bind: Can't contact LDAP server (81).
I have tried restarting the processes on both the replicas and the master.
I hope you can help
Kind Regards
Mario Fonseca
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