A question on nscd

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> 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
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