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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Core-updates: Downloads do not work
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:05:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v8a2qvy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301031628.02444.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:28:02 +0100")

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Here is what I get:
> connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> connect(5, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)

OK, this confirms my intuition.

> Under debian, there is a separate package "nscd" with the following 
> description:
> Package: nscd
> Source: eglibc
> Description-en: Embedded GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon
>  A daemon which handles passwd, group and host lookups
>  for running programs and caches the results for the next
>  query. You should install this package only if you use
>  slow services like LDAP, NIS or NIS+.
>
> I am running neither LDAP nor NIS*, so it is not installed.

It works for name lookups in general, including DNS lookups.  It’s
useful to always enable it.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-03 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-03  8:55 Core-updates: Downloads do not work Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 15:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-03 15:28   ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 16:05     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-01-03 16:45       ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 20:53         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-04 15:57           ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-04 17:17             ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-06  0:20             ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-07 21:45               ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-07 22:17                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-08  8:54                   ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-08 22:51                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-09  6:25               ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-09 13:51                 ` Ludovic Courtès

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