Hi, Monday, December 18, 2000, 11:19:14 PM, you wrote: N> I guess I knew most of that, I'm still wondering if it's worth running at all N> if you don't use NIS, and at what point (if any) it does become worth running. My initial thoughts were that web server logging could take advantage of this. I.e. if a visitor downloads multiple pages from a server, then the server needn't query the DNS server for each page to find out the FQDN from the ip address. But I would have thought that any good webserver would cache internally anyway ?! Alternatively, say you telnet to a certain machine frequently - would nscd help to speedup the resolving ?? Or does nscd only cache the /etc/hosts entries, and not "ns-looked up" ones ?? Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@penrallt.clara.co.uk