Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:18:42 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> Cc: Michael Bushkov <bushman@rsu.ru> Subject: Re: nscd for freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306191516370.13279-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3EF1B993.3050502@gmx.net>
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > Michael Bushkov wrote: > > Good day! > > Can anyone tell me if there is an implementation of nscd for FreeBSD? > > If there is no, who's currently working on it? > > You can use bind in caching only mode. A far suprerior solution > to the problem at hand. So there is no need for "takoje malenkoje gawno" as > nscd is under Linux. Recent discussions on -arch surprisingly managed to avoid the knee-jerk reactions due to other nscd _implementations_ while discussing the need to make /bin dynamically loaded to support NSS &co. The alternative (lookupd) approach was raised and seemed to find favour, but I don't know if that tactic has been adopted. FWIW I think it makes a lot of sense. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ NB: with "Fundamental Human Rights" come "Fundamental Human Responsibilities".
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