On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 16:30:17 -0500
> >>>>> "Jacques A. Vidrine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> n> I've made a port of NetBSD's nsswitch code. This allows one to
> n> configure various databases such as passwd(5) to use files, NIS,
> n> or Hesiod.
>
> I like bringing nsswitch into FreeBSD. It will reduce maintainance
> cost around resolver related routins.
> When I merged KAME effort around fixing DNS query order problem from
> NetBSD, I was forced to work with nsswitch -> host.conf issue.
I think we all like the semantics, but I recall a large discussion about a
year ago that NetBSD's nsswitch is serializing, which for heavy DNS use is
a major performance hit. I don't recall if a design ever came out of it.
Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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