On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:46:07PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> 
> I'm fond of neither "nscd" (Solaris and Linux) nor "lookupd" (Mac OS X).
> All of them have given me more (Mac OS X, Fedora Core 3) or less
> (Solaris) headache in the past.
> 
> The most common problems are:
> 1.) Overeager caching causes lots of problem.
> 2.) The name service caching daemon becomes single point of failure.

Me, neither.  Point #2 gave me literally *years* of pain under Irix,
and I think some others here can testify to that (Hi, Jan!  Hi, Hubert!).

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Thor Lancelot Simon	                               tls@rek.tjls.com
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