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A question on nscd

Hi,

In nscd.init, there is

# description:  This is a daemon which handles passwd and group lookups \
#               for running programs and cache the results for the next \
#               query.  You should start this daemon only if you use \
#               slow Services like NIS or NIS+

I was wondering why nscd was only needed for NIS/NIS+. As far as I can
tell, it is also useful for DNS. Did I miss something?

Thanks.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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