Years ago, I seem to recall that the only services under control of hosts.allow & hosts.deny were those under inetd (/etc/inetd.conf). I just spent the past hour trying to figure out why I couldn't connect to my new ldap server from a remote site; come to find out all I needed was a simple entry in /etc/hosts.allow Being that slapd runs as a deamon, I stared at my slapd.conf file and couldn't find any reason why a connection was denied. Simple question: How does one know when a service is under tcpwrappers? Apache & Bind are not, what should have made me think slapd was? v/r Mike