Adam Megacz wrote: >> does nss-ptdb cache results? I am sure that nscd does cache >> > > Yes, ncsd provides caching for nss-ptdb as well. >
I didn't hear talk about using nscd before, but now that I see it's already running on deleuze I had an idea I wanted to run by the group. Previously, I was planning on setting up bind as a caching name server on mire and deleuze. However, some people recommend that you avoid mixing caching functions and authoritative functions on the same name server for security purposes. I would like to do this, but we don't have enough machines at this point for it to be possible if we just ran bind. However, nscd will let us cache DNS information. If we keep our resolv.conf files pointed to local Peer 1 nameservers rather than our own for external name resolution purposes, we can rely on nscd installed on each machine for DNS lookups as well. How do the other admins feel about this? There would be some traffic that would leave our network for DNS, but I don't think that it would amount to a whole lot, especially with a rule of using nscd for local caching on each machine. _______________________________________________ HCoop-SysAdmin mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-sysadmin
