nscd: Was Re: long delays with LDAP nss/pam
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 17:55, Donovan Baarda wrote:
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> nscd stopped running?
Sorry to subvert a thread like this, but has anyone else decided that
nscd is pretty much essential for all systems, regardless of nss, or
local nameservers?
It seems without it there is _no_ dns caching of any kind (except for
apps like squid that explicitly have it). If you ping, every single ping
packet triggers an nslookup. Even if you have a local caching name
server, the UDP traffic on the loopback interface hurts. If you don't
have a local dns cache, it really hurts.
Is there any reason why nscd should not be installed on a system?
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Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au>
http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/
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