FYI to the handful of people that use it, the ldapfilter.pm plugin on http://www.ntrg.com/misc/ldapfilter/ has been updated to v0.02
The significant change was the use of an eval {} timer block around the LDAP searches, so that if Net::LDAP doesn't come back on its own, the plugin timer kicks in. This seems to have fixed the sporadic timeout problems with LDAP searches, and it seems to operate in persistent mode reliably now. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/