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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. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de for pgp-key finger ajaeger@aixd1.rhrk.uni-kl.de
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