<div>yeah, it took me a sec to figure out why you did that, but it makes sense. Your example shows that for that purpose /etc/hosts file changes are updated immediately. With "immediate" being defined as sub 1 second. </div>
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<div>I would assume there are edge cases where nscd causes issues. Not sure what they are but with the wide spread usage of Linux there are probably some places.</div>
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<div>Leam<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>What is important to note about that example is that ping, like most applications that do network lookups, will only do the lookup once at the beginning. For that reason my example required that I put single ping calls in a loop</p>
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