Nscd caches name service lookups and can dramatically improve
performance with NIS+, and may help with DNS as well. Note that you
can't use nscd with 2.0 kernels because of bugs in the kernel-side
thread support. Unfortunately, nscd happens to hit these bugs
particularly hard.

Install nscd if you need a name service lookup caching daemon, and
you're not using a version 2.0 kernel.

-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             1533 sep 20 09:54 /etc/nscd.conf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root             2135 sep 20 09:55 /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            42300 sep 20 09:55 /usr/sbin/nscd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root             4172 sep 20 09:55 /usr/sbin/nscd_nischeck