Any need for nscd?

[Milan Jurik]

Hi Paul,

depending on your operating system, nscd is caching naming data (passwd,
group, hosts and other naming databases) as client, it has no direct
relevance to BIND nor DNS clients of your BIND.

It can improve performance of your server, but if your server is just
for BIND, then impact isn't measurable probably.

Best regards,

Milan

V st, 27. 08. 2008 v 10:28, Paul Cocker píše:
> Well as nscd offers nothing but name caching, I'm not sure what
> confusion could lie as regards my requirements. I wish my server to have
> name caching capabilities and, as stated it will already be running
> BIND, therefore is this something BIND can handle (therefore no need to
> add an additional package), or is it outside the scope of BIND and I
> should add nscd to the server to handle this function.
> 
> Please let me know if I need to provide any further details.
> 
> Paul Cocker
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Niall O'Reilly [mailto:Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie] 
> Sent: 27 August 2008 09:29
> To: Paul Cocker; bind-users at isc.org
> Cc: Niall.oReilly at ucd.ie
> Subject: Re: Any need for nscd?
> 
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:10:12 +0100, Paul Cocker
> <paul.cocker at tntpost.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On a server running BIND, is there any need for nscd (a name caching 
> > daemon)?
> 
> 	Very likely not, but
> 	without knowing your requirements, who can say?
> 
> 	Niall O'Reilly
> 
> 
> 
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