Bug#895981: please cleanup /var/cache/nscd on restart
* Harald Dunkel:
> I am using both systemd and sysvinit-core, but I am not sure which one
> was active when I ran into this problem.
>
> Consider a split DNS setup for a remote network. I had started an IPsec
> connection to the remote side. /etc/resolv.conf was changed to include
> the new internal DNServer on the remote side, but a host lookup gave me
> still the old external address. Stopping nscd did not help, AFAIR.
That's arguably a bug in nscd. It should flush the cache each time it
detects a change in /etc/resolv.conf (or /etc/gai.conf, for that
matter).
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