nscd - A Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
| License: | LGPL | 
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| Vendor: | Scientific Linux | 
- Description:
- Nscd caches name service lookups and can dramatically improve performance with NIS+, and may help with DNS as well. Note that you can't use nscd with 2.0 kernels because of bugs in the kernel-side thread support. Unfortunately, nscd happens to hit these bugs particularly hard. 
Packages
| nscd-2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.6.i386 [140 KiB] | Changelog
              by Andreas Schwab (2010-06-09): - Fix scope handling during dl_close (#602210) | 
| nscd-2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.3.i386 [140 KiB] | Changelog
              by Andreas Schwab (2010-03-24): - Fix nscd to respect DNS TTL (#576177) | 
| nscd-2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.2.i386 [140 KiB] | Changelog
              by Andreas Schwab (2010-01-27): - Avoid a race condition setting l_used (#558472) | 
| nscd-2.3.4-2.43.el4_8.1.i386 [140 KiB] | Changelog
              by Andreas Schwab (2009-12-14): - Fix pthread_join hanging after setuid (#544976) |