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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:07:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au
Cc:        bandix@looksharp.net, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIS client performance seems very poor under network load
Message-ID:  <15292.24342.741023.939305@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3BBBE105.9863D667@dsto.defence.gov.au>
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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).

Drew


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