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Bug#335476: nscd: Caches old IP-address



tag 335476 + upstream confirmed
forwarded 335476 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4428
retitle 335476 [nscd] does not respect DNS TTL.
thanks

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:18:28AM +0200, Anders Boström wrote:
> Package: nscd
> Version: 2.3.5-6
> Severity: important
> 
> When ssh make a lookup of a node with changed IP-address, nscd returns
> the old address. If I stop nscd, ssh get the right address. But as
> soon as I start nscd again, the old address is delivered to ssh. All
> other applications I've tested get the right address, even when nscd
> is running. Applications I've tested includes 'getent hosts', host
> and ping.

  I can confirm that nscd does not invalidate cache as it should wrt DNS
TTL's. Though it (as of 2.5) respects positive-time-to-live properly.

-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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