A question on nscd

[Jonathan Larmour]

"H.J. Lu" wrote:
> > >>>>> H J Lu writes:
> >
> >  > 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.

As I understand it, nscd doesn't use the DNS TTL data, and so is inferior to
a caching BIND. Therefore it is better to avoid it if you are using DNS.

Jifl
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