telnet to ldap port --> verify response

Hello,
after having done a telnet to port 389(ldap), is there any command
that I can execute to verify if the ldap service is responding, such
as a command to show the ldap version.

The goal sending a string to ldap via telnet in order to receive an
answer. The content of the answer is not important, I only need to see
that the service is responding.

Thanx
CB

paul b wrote:
> Hello,
> after having done a telnet to port 389(ldap), is there any command
> that I can execute to verify if the ldap service is responding, such
> as a command to show the ldap version.
>
> The goal sending a string to ldap via telnet in order to receive an
> answer. The content of the answer is not important, I only need to see
> that the service is responding.

If you are familiar with perl
<http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/perl-ldap/Net/LDAP.html>