nscd and DNS cache

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 15 May 2012 23:54:03 -0700
JD wrote:

> I was using nscd thinking it is a lightweight caching resolver. But as
> it turns out it is useless.
> Time for fedora to bury it :)

It isn't useless for me at work: It is the only thing that makes
NIS lookups reliable. At some point in time, glibc apparently
changed the timeout for NIS to something like 3 nanoseconds :-).