From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 10 20:09:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DCB106566B for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:09:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BADE14DD50 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E935105.1090602@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:09:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <051853CE-03EC-4EEC-A5AC-C380131B28E4@gsoft.com.au> <4e8f073c.3g2aD/Zz9KdsWOKN%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:09:41 -0000 On 10/10/2011 11:55, David Brodbeck wrote: > Is there any reason to cache negative hits? It's very important for DNS since there are a fairly large number of misbehaving applications that don't stop querying until they get some kind of answer. And speaking of DNS, while I think that improving nscd is a good goal I wonder how much use it will be in the world to come when DNSSEC becomes more important ... -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/