Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:26:45 +0100 From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <E9A18A96-A655-4976-8CAE-3871CF0A2B83@webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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On 4 Oct 2011, at 17:00, Michel Talon wrote: > Des wrote: >> Does anyone actually use nscd? >=20 > I am using it since a lot of time. I have not experienced annoying = bugs > in all that time. The last time i have been hit is when installing = some > new softs which require adding some user and some group with pw. Of > course this doesn't work well with caching these data, and i had > completely forgotten i was using a cache. This is very perplexing. Same here. It just works. And you forget about it. But always beware = that it caches - and that caching is not system wide - but per user. And = I've seen a few cases where I suspect it serialises or otherwise blocks = on barrages of DNS queries. But it is helpful - when the data needs to = come from ldap or whereever. Dw.
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