On Sat, 31 Aug 2013, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Any news about this? It's off because of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=335476 glibc (2.5-5) unstable; urgency=low
Since this release, hosts caching in nscd is off by default: for some of the libc calls (gethostby* calls) nscd does not respect the DNS TTLs. It can lead to system lockups (e.g. if you are using pam-ldap and change the IP of your authentication server) hence is not considered safe. See debian bug #335476 and how upstream answered to that in http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4428. -- Pierre Habouzit <madco...@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:10:56 +0200 From reading the source code, it appears that this has not been fixed. Frankly, if you want to cache host requests, there are better methods than using nscd. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate that, when arrested, Al-Hazar was in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and a calculator. US President George W Bush argued that this was clear and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of math instruction. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
