[Leaplist] Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd)

[Kevin Inscoe]

Nothing since they want to use it for LDAP and NIS.

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
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> I have only seen it cause problems as well but I can't say I have any
> proof.
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> What does it provide that a caching dns server (dnscache) wouldn't provide?
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> On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:21:08 -0500
> Kevin Inscoe <kevin at inscoe.org> wrote:
>> I have a constant battle at work about the nscd daemon. I have
>> consistently had problems with it in both Solaris and RHEL. I am being
>> asked (read semi-forced) to institute it again (I am the one of the
>> Linux build masters for the company) in RHEL 4 and 5 . I would be
>> grateful for any hard evidence documentation from any where to either
>> it's benefits or problems in production environments. Personal
>> anecdotes are also welcome. Yes I have STFG.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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