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Re: gethby* and dynamic DNS assignment
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
> Why is it no option? Because of the extra stat? If you don't use
> nscd, the cost for the extra stat is small in comparision to the dns
> lookup.
But you are punishing everybody for the problem only a few have.
Those few are the ones who have to go to greater length to make things
work and using/restarting nscd is no problem.
> This doesn't change much. Now you change the problem from wwwoffle to
> nscd - and the only solution again is a restart.
Yes, nscd can be restarted. This is no problem at all.
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