Bug#335476: nscd: Caches old IP-address
* Dave Love:
> Yes, please turn off the default persistent caching of hosts (at
> least). I think this should also be done upstream. It can lead to
> lockout of logins in an obscure fashion -- at least it did on Fedora
> systems running what appears to be the same version of nscd with the
> same defaults, so presumably Debian would be subject to the same
> lossage.
The current code tries to honor TTLs. It might be sufficient to set a
zero (or very low) TTL for entries coming from /etc/hosts.
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