On Tue, 15 May 2012 23:54:03 -0700 JD wrote:
I was using nscd thinking it is a lightweight caching resolver. But as it turns out it is useless. Time for fedora to bury it :)
It isn't useless for me at work: It is the only thing that makes NIS lookups reliable. At some point in time, glibc apparently changed the timeout for NIS to something like 3 nanoseconds :-).