Package: nscd
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

This looks a lot like #451552, except the bug *still* occurs on more
recent versions.  I expect this grave bug would have been fixed
_in_etch_ by the time...

Setting debug-level to 16383 in /etc/nscd.conf, and running nscd -d in
a terminal gives the following crash before a few minutes to hours (even
when nscd was started after invalidating the caches with nscd -i):

[...cut...]
> 10152: add new entry "adtech.panthercustomer.com" of type GETHOSTBYNAME for 
> hosts to cache (first)
> 10152: Reloading "adtech.panthercustomer.com" in hosts cache!
> 10152: add new entry "adtech.panthercustomer.com" of type GETHOSTBYNAME for 
> hosts to cache (first)
> 10152: Reloading "adtech.panthercustomer.com" in hosts cache!
> 10152: add new entry "adtech.panthercustomer.com" of type GETHOSTBYNAME for 
> hosts to cache (first)
> 10152: Reloading "adtech.panthercustomer.com" in hosts cache!
> 10152: add new entry "adtech.panthercustomer.com" of type GETHOSTBYNAME for 
> hosts to cache (first)
> 10152: Reloading "ecx.images-amazon.com" in hosts cache!
> nscd: hstcache.c:364: cache_addhst: Assertion `hst->h_addr_list[1] == ((void 
> *)0)' failed.
> Aborted

Of course, after the crash all networking is slowed to a pain since
name lookups aren't cached any more... and the lack of cache also has
impacts on other tables :(

Since the process isn't rock solid, it has become unusable... one
can't go restart it every time it crashes, it would be far too often.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages nscd depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared
libraries

nscd recommends no packages.

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