Port redirect in linux to remote host

I had an application that needs to connect to a LDAP port (tcp:389) but the problem was that the LDAP was on an external network and on a non standard port (tcp:1389).
Pointing direct to remote_ip:1389 was not and option because the application is taking the LDAP port from the openldap libs (LDAP_PORT) which is a constant integer = 389 ...

The solution proved to be very simple - install a small port redirect program rinted do a small configuration into .

# config
/etc/rinetd.conf
   
127.0.0.1     389        remote_ip        1389


# start the daemon (only if you install it from rpm - if not just start manually)
/etc/init.d/rinetd start

And this is it - all works just fine.

Note that doing an iptables PREROUTING and DNAT will not work in my case because iptables can do
redirects ONLY into the local network.