From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 5 0:55:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rj.sgi.com (rj.SGI.COM [204.94.215.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F86337B405 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 00:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yog-sothoth.sgi.com (eugate.neu.sgi.com [144.253.131.5]) by rj.sgi.com (8.11.4/8.11.4/linux-outbound_gateway-1.0) with ESMTP id f957t6L01266; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 00:55:06 -0700 Received: from sgiger.munich.sgi.com (sgiger.munich.sgi.com [144.253.192.2]) by yog-sothoth.sgi.com (980305.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980304.SGI-aspam-europe) via SMTP id JAA1860328; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:55:01 +0200 (CEST) mail_from (gwk@sgi.com) Received: from cuckoo.munich.sgi.com (cuckoo.munich.sgi.com [144.253.192.109]) by sgiger.munich.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id JAA13309; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:54:01 +0200 Received: from hunter.munich.sgi.com (hunter.munich.sgi.com [144.253.197.18]) by cuckoo.munich.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA88018; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:53:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hunter.munich.sgi.com (localhost.munich.sgi.com [127.0.0.1]) by hunter.munich.sgi.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f957rMm00940; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:53:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gwk@sgi.com) Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 09:53:22 +0200 Message-ID: From: "Georg-W. Koltermann" To: "Thyer, Matthew" Cc: Andrew Gallatin , bandix@looksharp.net, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load In-Reply-To: <3BBD6015.9EB74634@dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20010928022500.I24843-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <3BBAD3F3.241A1FEE@dsto.defence.gov.au> <15291.10120.604882.602699@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3BBBE105.9863D667@dsto.defence.gov.au> <15292.24342.741023.939305@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3BBD6015.9EB74634@dsto.defence.gov.au> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.4.1 (Stand By Me) SEMI/1.13.7 (Awazu) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) Emacs/20.7 (i386--freebsd) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) Organization: SGI X-Attribution: gwk MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.7 - "Awazu") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You know, I have been using and NSD, at work on IRIX. I had trouble with it, it sometimes wouldn't sync with the nameserver, or would cease to serve any names until I HUPed it. And, seriously, I don't really understand what it's good for. Bind has been responsible for resolving host names as long as I know. WHY would anyone want to use NIS for hostname resolution? I always configure the resolver to use bind (aka named), and have NIS resolve passwd, group, alias maps etc. if I need that functionality. When I'm worried about network load, I run a local named in caching only mode. Named makes a nice system-wide cache, it is maintained well, so why bother and write another daemon for that? -- Regards, Georg. At Fri, 05 Oct 2001 16:54:05 +0930, Thyer, Matthew wrote: > > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > Thyer, Matthew writes: > > > So the answer is a name service caching daemon ala nscd on Solaris. > > > > > > > Or linux. Apparently, there is an nscd in glibc. Perhaps somebody > > with motivation could determine if its any good. If so, they could > > chop it out of glibc, make it into a port & add hooks to our libc for > > it. (I no longer work at Duke or even use NIS, so that motivated > > person would not be me). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message