ldap error

[varun]

hi all
i want to setupldap on my redhat 8 box i have made changes to slapd.conf and ldap.conf but when i give command ldapsearch it says cant contact ldap server secondly when i give command
/usr/sbin/slapd -d 64 -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
it says the fowllowing..
daemon: socket() failed errno=97 (Address family not supported by protocol)
daemon: bind (6) failed errno=98 (Address already in use)
daemon: bind(6) failed
slapd stopped
connections_destroy: nothing to destroy

plz help me its really urgent

thanks in advance

[Dolda2000]

Address family not supported? Could it be trying to use IPv6 or something? Try stracing (see the command strace if you don't know) the process and see exactly what kind of socket it tries to create.