Strange name resolution

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon May 2 17:08:30 UTC 2005


Patrick Nelson wrote:
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 
>> Am Mo, den 02.05.2005 schrieb Patrick Nelson um 1:57:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Anyone have any idea what is happening?  It sure appears to be a 
>>> cache issue but I'm not sure what are how to clear it.  Note also 
>>> this has happened before so it is not isolated.  TIA
>>>   
>>
>>
>> nscd caching?
>>
>> Alexander
>>  
>>
> Wow thought nscd was just for caching authentication...  Didn't think of 
> that one and yes it is running.  However it is running on all the other 
> systems as well.and it should have re-cached the data over the 
> reboot...  Should it?  I did see any other way of flushing the cache 
> other than restarting it.

"nscd -i table-name" will invalidate the cache for the named table.
Use "nscd -g" to display current statistics.  "nscd --help" will display
the commands it groks.
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