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Date:      Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:09:41 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does anyone use nscd?
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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 ...


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