I have tried these two Net::LDAP approaches, but $numEnt is zero in both cases:
$mesg = $ldap->search( base => $dn ); $numEnt = $mesg->count; $mesg = $ldap->search ( base => $dn, scope => 'base',); $numEnt = $mesg->count; A command line ldapsearch like so works fine: ldapsearch -h my_ldap_server -x -b "fully qualfied dn"