gethby* and dynamic DNS assignment

[Ulrich Drepper]

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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