- In Solaris 7, host cache is multi-threaded, advisable to enable it.

- might be a problem with the resolver libraries not being multi-threaded

Thanks to:

From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>

From: Cliff Skolnick <cliff@steam.com>

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Original question below:

We have a strange problem:

In /etc/nscd.conf, if we uncomment the following

# enable-cache hosts no

to disable cache for 'hosts'.

Netscape 4.5 and 4.51 will fail to resolve a DNS name properly

and the netscape process just waits forever...

This happens only on SunOS5.7, ie we have no

such problem for SunOS5.6 and 5.5.1.

All SunOS5.x runs on SPARC platforms.

Netscape 4.05 that came with the vanilla Solaris5.7 server CDs

does not have the problem.

Anybody knows a patch?

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