On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:34:23PM -0500, Adam Thornton wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 17:21, David Boyes wrote:
> > Small scale developer workstations or "dedicated" application
> > workstations that do little or no application DNS traffic.
>
> Yeah, but if they do so little DNS traffic, then why not, you know, just
> let them hit the *real* DNS server?

Pretty sure that nscd caches more than just DNS.  If you're using NIS or
LDAP, for example, nscd is supposed to prevent you from driving your
information service into the ground whenever someone does an "ls -l".

Cheers,
Vic Cross

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