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In article <88olvn$l87$2@axalotl.demon.co.uk>, huge@nospam.huge.org.uk
(Huge) wrote:

>Ah. Hang on. nscd.conf contains a line;
>
>        enable-cache            hosts           no
>
>Which I assume means not to cache hosts lookups.

Indeed it does.  Didn't you use my "connecting to an ISP" notes at
www.kempston.net?  If so, that would explain why that line is there.

On the whole, I find it's desirable to switch off host caching in
nscd.  There's one exception: recent versions of Netscape seem to have
a bug whereby on some systems, it fails to do any name lookups
successfully unless nscd is configured to cache hostnames.  On other
systems, it works perfectly without nscd and I've never been able to
track down why it Netscape requires nscd on some systems but not on
others.

Regards, Mike.

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