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What are “Positive entries” and “Negative entries” in NSCD (Named Service Cache Deamon) for FreeIPA

The “Positive entries” and “Negative entries” stats are in the nscd -g command under “hosts cache” section. From the nscd.conf manual, I see that “positive entries are successful queries in the specified cache” and “negative entries (unsuccessful queries) in the specified cache”. But, how can a unsuccessful query(negative entry) in cache have hits(cache hits on negative entries), when the query

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