Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:20:20 -0700 From: David Brodbeck <brodbd@uw.edu> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <CAHHaOubKE6A=k%2BM=08tTcm_2yQAORfteWvRqKF0EKnD4dYOfcg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E935105.1090602@FreeBSD.org> References: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <051853CE-03EC-4EEC-A5AC-C380131B28E4@gsoft.com.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110050931310.18373@mail.fig.ol.no> <j6k00t$2tk$1@dough.gmane.org> <4e8f073c.3g2aD/Zz9KdsWOKN%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <CAFHbX1LN5zidePrusaSyD_nE79VwbjNpc4s7TwMszYKBK=n4NQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANkaO_ESdeoSiuwatqaPEY%2BDDN8eGGj_ymPsxOsu9AOtHX6ydQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHHaOuYkhYp_x5ONbRcr_8Zb6ZcyPaZZvG02f6f1%2B8XyQYUe%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <4E935105.1090602@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 10/10/2011 11:55, David Brodbeck wrote: > > Is there any reason to cache negative hits? > > It's very important for DNS since there are a fairly large number of > misbehaving applications that don't stop querying until they get some > kind of answer. > That's a good point. I hadn't thought about it in terms of DNS; we use it mainly for caching LDAP lookups. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington
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