Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis: > Here is what I get: > connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 > ENOENT (No such file or directory) > connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 > ENOENT (No such file or directory)
OK, this confirms my intuition. > Under debian, there is a separate package "nscd" with the following > description: > Package: nscd > Source: eglibc > Description-en: Embedded GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon > A daemon which handles passwd, group and host lookups > for running programs and caches the results for the next > query. You should install this package only if you use > slow services like LDAP, NIS or NIS+. > > I am running neither LDAP nor NIS*, so it is not installed. It works for name lookups in general, including DNS lookups. It’s useful to always enable it. Thanks, Ludo’.
