Re: [SLE] Caching DNS server in Suse 10.1

* Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [09-29-06 14:56]:
I've tried 'man' and 'info' and Google... spent probably a half hour
now looking for a succinct, functional description of the differences
between nscd and named, i.e which does what?... to no avail. Would
please elaborate a little?

:^), I'm not Carlos, but:

named

is a Domain Name System (DNS) server, part of the BIND 9
distribution from ISC. For more information on the DNS, see RFCs
1033, 1034, and 1035.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/named.8.html


NAME
/usr/sbin/nscd - name service cache daemon
DESCRIPTION
Nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name
service requests. The default configuration file, /etc/nscd.conf,
determines the behavior of the cache daemon. See nscd.conf(5).

ie: named is a server which looks up hostnames and nscd is a cacheing
daemon which remembers reciently used hostnames->ip_addresses (I would
think similarly to /etc/host where you could put frequently used
addresses).


:^) at least as I read ....
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