diff -urN src.orig/lookups/ldap.c src/lookups/ldap.c
--- src.orig/lookups/ldap.c	Tue Oct  5 11:32:08 2004
+++ src/lookups/ldap.c	Sat Nov 20 21:05:00 2004
@@ -748,7 +748,8 @@
 with the search. The message must be an LDAP_RES_SEARCH_RESULT or else it's
 something we can't handle. */
 
-if (rc != LDAP_RES_SEARCH_RESULT)
+//if (rc != LDAP_RES_SEARCH_RESULT)
+if ((rc != LDAP_RES_SEARCH_RESULT) && (rc != LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE))
   {
   *errmsg = string_sprintf("ldap_result returned unexpected code %d", rc);
   goto RETURN_ERROR;
@@ -757,14 +758,24 @@
 /* We have a result message from the server. This doesn't yet mean all is well.
 We need to parse the message to find out exactly what's happened. */
 
-  #if defined LDAP_LIB_SOLARIS || defined LDAP_LIB_OPENLDAP2
-  if (ldap_parse_result(lcp->ld, result, &rc, CSS &matched, CSS &error2, NULL,
-      NULL, 0) < 0)
+#if defined LDAP_LIB_SOLARIS || defined LDAP_LIB_OPENLDAP2
+{
+  int ldap_rc,  ldap_parse_rc;
+  ldap_rc = rc;
+  ldap_parse_rc = ldap_parse_result(lcp->ld, result, &rc, CSS &matched, CSS &error2, NULL,
+    NULL, 0);
+DEBUG(D_lookup) debug_printf("ldap_parse_result: %d: %s\n", ldap_parse_rc);
+  if ((ldap_parse_rc < 0) && 
+    (!((ldap_parse_rc == LDAP_NO_RESULTS_RETURNED) && (ldap_rc == LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE))))
+{
     {
+DEBUG(D_lookup) debug_printf("ldap_parse_result failed %d: %s\n", ldap_parse_rc);
     *errmsg = US"ldap_parse_result failed";
     goto RETURN_ERROR;
     }
   error1 = US ldap_err2string(rc);
+}
+}
 
 #elif defined LDAP_LIB_NETSCAPE
   /* Dubious (it doesn't reference 'result' at all!) */