Chris Shenton wrote:
> Michael Bushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Can anyone tell me if there is an implementation of nscd for FreeBSD?
>
> For DNS information, have a look at "dnscache" from the djbdns suite.
> Small, secure, fast.
>
> http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
> http://www.lifewithdjbdns.org/
>
> If you're trying to cache other data, sorry to bother you.
We are not trying to cache; if any caching happens, it'll be
a side benefit. What we are trying to do is come up with a
model that:
1) Moves the dynamically loaded NSS modules out of the
program address space, and onto the other end of a
communications channel, so that statically linked
programs can benefit from NSS modules that are not
statically compiled into them.
2) Allow multiple outstanding simultaneous requests on
the communications channel from a given program, so
as to provide a cheap and easy way to implement the
support for the gethostaddr_r() and similar functions,
which cannot otherwise be easily made thread safe,
without consuming a socker per thread calling them.
If this yields caching as well, that's just gravy, not the goal.
-- Terry
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