Caching Name Server

[keith morse]

James McDonald wrote:
> 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.

Ack. The whole time I saw this thread I was thinking about this rpm.

caching-nameserver-7.3-3.noarch.rpm