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diff --git a/nis/nss b/nis/nss
index 4f65f81120..aab40ab3f0 100644
--- a/nis/nss
+++ b/nis/nss
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# /etc/default/nss
# This file can theoretically contain a bunch of customization variables
-# for Name Service Switch in the GNU C library. For now there are only two
-# variables:
+# for Name Service Switch in the GNU C library. For now there are only
+# three variables:
#
# NETID_AUTHORITATIVE
# If set to TRUE, the initgroups() function will accept the information
@@ -18,3 +18,11 @@
# primary service names and service aliases. The system administrator
# has to make sure it is correctly generated.
#SERVICES_AUTHORITATIVE=TRUE
+#
+# SETENT_BATCH_READ
+# If set to TRUE, various setXXent() functions will read the entire
+# database at once and then hand out the requests one by one from
+# memory with every getXXent() call. Otherwise each getXXent() call
+# might result into a network communication with the server to get
+# the next entry.
+#SETENT_BATCH_READ=TRUE