I believe you want DBD::LDAP (in conjunction with Apache::DBI)
use DBI;
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:LDAP:ldapdb",'user','password')
or die "Cannot connect as user: " . $DBI::errstr;
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:LDAP:ldapdb") #ANONYMOUS
or die "Cannot connect as guest (readonly): " . $DBI::errstr;
Updated: You might also want to look at ResourcePool, which specifically calls out Net::LDAP connection caching as a target use.
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