Caching Name Server

[James McDonald]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:56:35PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Sunday 30 January 2005 22:10, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> > Although it doesn't run out of the box, you can just install the
> > caching nameserver RPM and bind and edit /etc/resolv.conf to point to
> > 127.0.0.1, but I'm pretty sure you know that already. (this is for
> > the benefit of those who don't know)
> 
> Thanks, Pascal. That was the piece of information for which I was 
> looking. I didn't realize there was a caching nameserver RPM.

This is the package for fc3...

rpm -qp nscd-2.3.3-74.i386.rpm --info
Name        : nscd                         Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.3.3                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 74                            Build Date: Thu 28 Oct 2004 08:47:22 EST
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Daemons    Source RPM: glibc-2.3.3-74.src.rpm
Size        : 83472                            License: LGPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Fri 29 Oct 2004 02:46:47 EST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary     : A Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
Description :
Nscd caches name service lookups. It can dramatically improve
performance with NIS+ and may help with DNS as well.


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