diff --git a/bitnami/openldap/2.6/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/openldap/2.6/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 21fdde6b7710..e1d8f2277d5e 100644
--- a/bitnami/openldap/2.6/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/openldap/2.6/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
       org.opencontainers.image.licenses="Apache-2.0" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="2.6.3-debian-11-r71" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="2.6.3-debian-11-r72" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/openldap" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="openldap" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
diff --git a/bitnami/openldap/2.6/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libopenldap.sh b/bitnami/openldap/2.6/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libopenldap.sh
index bcc3f6a65e3d..3b2a650ec888 100644
--- a/bitnami/openldap/2.6/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libopenldap.sh
+++ b/bitnami/openldap/2.6/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libopenldap.sh
@@ -150,18 +150,6 @@ ldap_validate() {
     [[ "$error_code" -eq 0 ]] || exit "$error_code"
 }
 
-########################
-# Check if OpenLDAP is ready to answer
-# Arguments:
-#   None
-# Returns:
-#   Whether slapd is ready to answer
-#########################
-is_ldap_ready() {
-    # shellcheck disable=SC2015
-    is_ldap_running && debug_execute ldapsearch -Y EXTERNAL -H "ldapi:///" -b cn=config -s base || false
-}
-
 ########################
 # Check if OpenLDAP is running
 # Globals:
@@ -209,7 +197,7 @@ ldap_start_bg() {
         ulimit -n "$LDAP_ULIMIT_NOFILES"
         am_i_root && flags=("-u" "$LDAP_DAEMON_USER" "${flags[@]}")
         debug_execute slapd "${flags[@]}" &
-        if ! retry_while is_ldap_ready "$retries" "$sleep_time"; then
+        if ! retry_while is_ldap_running "$retries" "$sleep_time"; then
             error "OpenLDAP failed to start"
             return 1
         fi