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nslookup is for name servers, it will not look in hosts files. If you decide to set up a DNS service, then you can do that, possibly with dnsmasq under Linux, which is very very simple to use. If you do not want a DNS service, then you woudl look up manually add all details to all host files.
"connect"?? what does that mean? in terms of resolving, the above still stands. You either use a DNS server, or you manually add entries to host files.
OK, so you want to put in the address of the ldap server... so YET AGAIN, you need DNS or local /etc/hosts file entries. OR just put the IP address in. In fact, I recommend that is what you do, don't rely on DNS for a low level serice like LDAP.
In Linux you can use "getent hosts <hostname>" to test whether name resolution is working. Remember that Windows also has a hosts file. I'm not certain which hosts file you edited. You could also try entering the IP address in place of the hostname. The software should be smart enough to recognize the difference.
If other services use the LDAP server successfully, start by looking for logs for this business intelligence software. You mentioned that it is used for authentication. What error do you see. It could be that your network connection is working, but the LDAP server doesn't have the client information entered needed to authorize the client.
In other words, it may be a software configuration problem and not a networking issue.
You could use netstat on the LDAP server to verify that port 589 is being listened to. You can use wireshark to examine network traffic. I think I would start looking for logs first. The problem might not be network related.
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