Lawrence Stewart <[email protected]> writes: > If the machine running nscd loses connectivity with the DNS server for > a while and does a DNS lookup during that time, nscd will cache the > -ve reply indefinitely for all users, which breaks all sorts of > crap. Have to forcibly run "nscd -I all" to fix. I will find and fix > this bug one day if noone beats me to it...
Definitely a bug, nscd is only supposed to cache negative responses for 60 seconds. I hope you find the time to track it down :) Is it 100% reproducable? How long does the DNS server have to be unreachable before it happens? > I'd like to see it stay in base. Moving it (slowly) towards a point > where we can turn it on by default would be cool. Agreed, in principle. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
