You're right. I shut it down and didn't have any more problems.
Couldn't tell any difference without it either.
Ed.
Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 09:15, Ronan Heffernan wrote:
>
>>Ed Centanni wrote:
>>
>>>Uh... nevermind. It's the Name Server Cache Daemon (nscd) and
>>>restarting it will clear them out. Anybody know how to stop them from
>>>building up?
>>>
>>I don't know why netstat is show "ESTABLISHED" connections. UDP is
>>connectionless and stateless. Maybe netstat is presenting you with a
>>history of received packets? *NIX doesn't even know when an incomming
>>packet is "in response to" a previous outgoing packet, versus being an
>>unsolicited incoming UDP packet.
>>
>
> Ronan is correct.
>
> I *always* kill nscd outright - it does nothing but muck up systems, the pain
> far outweighs any benefits of reducing minor network traffic with its often
> broken caching behaviour.
>
> Just say "no" to nscd, particularly in a NIS environment. Your resolver will
> thank you.
>
> - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com
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