Re: nscd: Was Re: long delays with LDAP nss/pam
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:47, "Donovan Baarda" <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Seriously, does nscd really not correctly handle dns caching/expiry
> properly? I thought the dns caching stuff was well thought out and
> defined... not implementing it properly would be dumb.
It's what I've been told. I haven't tested it myself.
> I don't think that it's that simple... I seem to be getting lookups for
> both of those. Are you sure you didn't just have smtp.sws.net.au in your
> hosts file?
You are correct, I stuffed up that test.
> > I think that ping is buggy in this regard. I think that it should just
> > keep using the first DNS result that it gets, if the user wants ping to
> > re-do the DNS lookups then they will press ^C and re-start it! Would you
> > like to file the bug report or shall I?
>
> There may be reasons that it doesn't.... round robin DNS? Dynamic DNS
> "flapping"? dunno.
I disagree, and I am not the only one, see the following URL:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=109709
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