diff -Naurk.orig nss_ldap-172/ldap-nss.c.orig nss_ldap-172/ldap-nss.c
--- nss_ldap-172/ldap-nss.c.orig	Thu Aug 30 07:34:27 2001
+++ nss_ldap-172/ldap-nss.c	Tue Apr  2 14:26:48 2002
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_LDAP_INITIALIZE
 	}
 #endif
-      if (__session.ls_conn != NULL || cfg->ldc_next == cfg)
+      if (__session.ls_conn != NULL || cfg->ldc_next == cfg || cfg->ldc_next == NULL)
 	{
 	  break;
 	}