Any need for nscd?

Gary Mills mills at cc.umanitoba.ca
Wed Aug 27 12:37:44 UTC 2008


In <g936hq$30ds$1 at sf1.isc.org> Milan Jurik <Milan.Jurik at Sun.COM> writes:

>depending on your operating system, nscd is caching naming data (passwd,
>group, hosts and other naming databases) as client, it has no direct
>relevance to BIND nor DNS clients of your BIND.

We disable the hosts cache in /etc/nscd.conf but leave all the other
caches like this:

    enable-cache            hosts           no

`nscd -g' will give you statistics on all of the caches.

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-Gary Mills-    -Unix Support-    -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-


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