Excuse me - i need a big clue I have a fc6 box with many ethernet cards in ip runs ..... [rfc 1918 range] - local garbage postgres... [proper ip 1] www postfix cyrus-imap [proper ip 2] " [proper ip 3] " [proper ip 4] " with fds - 1.04 (most recent) it appears i can only run one port 389/636 using the java startconsole then its using some odd port number for each new domain rather than ideally [proper ip 1] www postfix ldap:389 ldap:90009 ldap:90010 ldap:900011 [proper ip 2] " noldap running [proper ip 3] " [proper ip 4] " The carter book on ldap appears to make no mention of a 'listen' like command you fing in apache, theres a hint in the the fds wiki of an inf file where things like server identifier can be specified but is fds upto the job each ldap stores will be light with data, rather than big So is what im trying to do possible with fds ?, I think no is the answer with java. Any responses (even rude ones most welcome)