Hello There,

I'm using a Readhat as gateway and I've notice that there are a lot a DNS request that are send many times for the same domain which is hammering the DNS server and create slowness.

So I was thinking to enable DNS caching in nscd
In the Man page I've found the following:
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enable-cache hosts yes
positive-time-to-live hosts 3600
negative-time-to-live hosts 20
suggested-size hosts 211
check-files hosts yes
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Will this do the job?

Best regards,
Angel.

ncsd isn't really for "DNS" cache so much as for "hosts" cache if I read its man page correctly.

What are you using for a naming service? You say "DNS" so I'm guessing it is either BIND or TinyDNS. If it is the former you can adjust caching by modifying named.conf.

You need to provide more details so folks can help you.

If you're running BIND you should see a "named" daemon running with "ps -ef |grep named". Note that you'll usually see a syslog entry referring to named as well but that isn't the named daemon itself.)

One thing you need to be careful about as regards cache is insuring you're not opening it up to people outside your organization - cache poisoning is a common problem.