nscd for freebsd

Marcin Dalecki mdcki at gmx.net
Thu Jun 19 09:03:38 PDT 2003


Jan Grant wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> 
> 
>>Michael Bushkov wrote:
>>
>>>Good day!
>>>Can anyone tell me if there is an implementation of nscd for FreeBSD?
>>>If there is no, who's currently working on it?
>>
>>You can use bind in caching only mode. A far suprerior solution
>>to the problem at hand. So there is no need for "takoje malenkoje gawno" as
>>nscd is under Linux.
> 
> 
> Recent discussions on -arch surprisingly managed to avoid the knee-jerk
> reactions due to other nscd _implementations_ while discussing the
> need to make /bin dynamically loaded to support NSS &co. The alternative
> (lookupd) approach was raised and seemed to find favour, but I don't
> know if that tactic has been adopted. FWIW I think it makes a lot of
> sense.

Never mind I was just still under the "impression" of the nscd from the
glibc package. It's making for example mozilla mourn for ages when you
misstype an URL... Even for the common case of APACHE log analysis it's
unusable, becouse quite commonly it will just overload the system
bejoind hope...



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