On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 19:42 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > AFAIK, nscd is not limited to caching host-IP entries, but can only > cache username-UID, groupname-GID entries. This kind of caching can > reduce network traffic when you are using directory services like NIS, > NIS+ or OpenLDAP to store user and group information. Yes, I know that. But let us focus on just host name lookup. In any case the first ssh login takes about 26 seconds. If nscd is running, then subsequent logins are almost immediate. If nscd is not running, then each subsequent login takes the same long time. Why is this very long delay and what is the role of caching-nameserver in comparison to nscd? -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich
