From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 15: 0:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792BC37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:00:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6E143E9C for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g98M0TIZ000115; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:00:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:00:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: Eric Six Cc: "'Steven Garrett'" , Subject: RE: ncsd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021008145739.H99987-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Eric Six wrote: > Run Bind as a caching only server. Ncsd is a sun program if I am correct.. I > don't ever recall seeing it anywhere else (aix, *bsd). > > Cheers, > Eric Dyslexics untie! It's nscd (name service cache daemon). It provides caching for multiple name services running on the same machine (dns, files, nis, etc.). I'm not aware of implementations outside of Solaris, and it's frequently cursed within Solaris, too. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message