On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:50:30AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon 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!).

In the meantime I also realized that "nscd" doesn't help for "sendmail"
anyway. Because there is not getwhatsoever(3) function which can return
MX records sendmail will use res_query(3) which doesn't use the
name service caching daemon (even under operating system which
provide such daemons).

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/