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Subject: Re: Core-updates: Downloads do not work
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:05:53 +0100
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Here is what I get:
> connect(5, {sa_family=3DAF_FILE, path=3D"/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) =3D=
 -1=20
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> connect(5, {sa_family=3DAF_FILE, path=3D"/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) =3D=
 -1=20
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)

OK, this confirms my intuition.

> Under debian, there is a separate package "nscd" with the following=20
> 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=E2=80=99s
useful to always enable it.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.