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> > >>>>> H J Lu writes: > > > 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? > > The description predates AFAIK the addition of host lookup to nscd and > should be updated. > > You can use nscd for caching DNS queries. Most nameserver setups > include already a caching name server. Therefore you've got to decide > who caches the DNS queries: named, nscd - or both. > The things I like in nscd are unix domain socket and multi-thread. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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