Re: nscd for freebsd

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Michael Bushkov wrote:

> On Monday 13 November 2006 14:58, Dmitriy Kirhlarov wrote:
>> I'm interested in name service caching daemon for freebsd (it's useful
>> for external userbase, stored in ldap and for monitoring hosts, with
>> resolving/polling of many hosts). It's much more useful, then local
>> cached named and local ldap replica.
>>
>> I found "cached" daemon in HEAD.
>>
>> Can somebody answer me -- when this daemon will be MFC-ed to RELENG_6?
>> Also why this strange name?
>> It's impossible to find this name in google, cause this daemon used to
>> be called nscd.
>> Is there any reason for inventing new name?
>>
> Actually, cached is called "cached" because initially it was intended only to
> cache the already obtained results of nsswitch queries. This is not how nscd
> behaves. Nscd makes all queries (to LDAP, NIS, etc) by itself and caches the
> results. cached only cached the results of requests, that have been actually
> made by other applications. The name "cached" was used to highlight this
> difference.
>
> Later, however, the nscd-like functionality was added to cached, but the name
> was left unchanged. Personally I don't see any reasons why "cached" can't be
> renamed to nscd right now - so I guess, it would happen in the nearest
> future.

If it now performs the same thing as Linux/Solaris nscd, then can
we change the name to nscd and nscd.conf before 7.0 goes out the
door?

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DE