On 07/01/2010 11:38 AM, Jurek Bajor wrote: > On 07/01/2010 10:42 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> Unfortunately, enabling or disabling IPV6 doesn't seem to have >> much to do with the library doing V6 DNS lookups. I could >> swear there was something added to nsswitch.conf or resolv.conf >> that you could set to disable v6 dns requests, but I can't >> remember what it was called. >> >> I run bind as a caching nameserver, forwarding lookups to my >> ISP's server and set the -4 option on the command line to >> make it stick to ipv4 and all my DNS lookup problems vanished. >>> bind is too complex to run and maintain. >>> Really, it is a huge overkill for what I need. >>> I hope nscd authors will fix it soon so it does not >>> purge it's cache every few seconds. I check'ed it's >>> config file and the >>> restart-interval 3600 >>> seems reasonable. > Hi, > I think that the default "restart-interval 3600", that is 3600 > secs = 1hr, > is a low/impractical value. I mean you want to keep your cache for much longer, > perhaps a week or more ... It is why one wanted it in the first place. > > Btw, there is a very good alternative (to BIND, etc) for DNS caching, namely > dnsmasq package. It is simpler, easier on resources. > I switched from bind to it and it serves me well. > It is part of F13, used in other distros (Slackware, etc). >> yum info dnsmasq > Jurek Is there a way to query nscd and ask it what's in it's cache? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
