Date: 13 Sep 2000 19:23:24 -0000 From: vladimir@math.uic.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: name service caching Message-ID: <20000913192324.25037.qmail@math.uic.edu>
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>From DougB@gorean.org Wed Sep 13 19:17:24 2000
>Delivered-To: vladimir@math.uic.edu
>Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:17:16 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>
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>To: vladimir@math.uic.edu
>cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: name service caching
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>On 13 Sep 2000 vladimir@math.uic.edu wrote:
>
>> Dear BSD users,
>>
>> is there an equivalent of Solaris nscd daemon
>> (name service caching daemon):
>
> No... nor would one be desirable. If you need this kind of servi
ce
>run a local copy of named configured as a forwarder to your
>"real" resolvers.
nscd on solaris also caches passwd and group databases.
I was asking because we've just added a bunch of BSD machines, and the
resources consumed by ypserv on a solaris NIS server went up quite a
lot. Before that, adding a lab of solaris boxes didn't make a
difference.
Vladimir
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