Re: [FC3] Sites 'disappearing' from DNS

[Andy Green]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Nigel Wade wrote:

| Given that nscd is the "problem", you can alter the time for which nscd
| caches failed DNS lookups. In /etc/nscd.conf change the timeout value in
|
| negative-time-to-live hosts 300
|
| to a smaller value than 300 seconds.

As I understand it the behaviour of ncsd is just a symptom of the "real"
problem which is wrongful intermittent failed lookups, presumably due to
a timed-out lookup.  One might imagine it would be better to treat that
disease than just try to minimize the pain by reducing the negative time
to live?

- -Andy
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>
> iD8DBQFCU6wxjKeDCxMJCTIRAq1SAJ9sTImskJ3uyxcb7akanTzQsVs5yACbB2Fs
> gOmo+zYJPRctWDcb+IbQ8pg=
> =LuEa
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----