-# per default. See /usr/share/doc/nscd/NEWS.Debian.
- enable-cache hosts no
- positive-time-to-live hosts 3600
- negative-time-to-live hosts 20
- suggested-size hosts 211
- check-files hosts yes
- persistent hosts yes
- shared hosts yes
- max-db-size hosts 33554432
+# by default. Specifically, the caching does not obey DNS TTLs, and
+# thus could lead to problems if the positive-time-to-live is
+# significantly larger than the actual TTL.
+#
+# You should really use a caching nameserver instead of nscd for this
+# sort of request. However, you can easily re-enable this by default.
+enable-cache hosts no
+positive-time-to-live hosts 3600
+negative-time-to-live hosts 20
+suggested-size hosts 1001
+check-files hosts yes