Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:24:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Greg Thomas
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:32:45AM -0600, Geordon VanTassle wrote:
FWIW, BIND == Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (or something similar) and is the most widely used DNS implementation. I am aware what bind is..
From the man page for nscd: Nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service requests.
Therefore, to answer your questions below: a) What's it supposed to do? It's supposed to provide a cache for the most common name service requests.
b) Does it add value to your system? It caches DNS info, making lookups somewhat faster. Does that add value to your system? Only you can decide. IMHO, though, it's a good thing.
Well, I dont think it does do that, or even that it can do that! Besides which DNS has it's own cache, so it hardly needs a little helper. In fact that can only slow DNS down.
It provides much more than just DNS caching as noted in the other message. Greg