Re: Sharing DNS cache among Squid workers

On 01/13/2011 02:18 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> Have you considered just having a caching-only local DNS server
> colocated on the same machine?

I am sure that would be an appropriate solution in some environments. On
the other hand, sometimes the box has no capacity for another server.
Sometimes the traffic from 8-16 Squids can be too much for a single DNS
server to handle. And sometimes administration/policy issues would
prevent using external caching DNS servers on the Squid box.

The existence of external caching DNS servers is one more reason I want
to get a consensus before plunging into implementing these changes in
Squid. I should have mentioned that in my original pros/cons list, sorry.

Thank you,

Alex.
Received on Thu Jan 13 2011 - 22:13:56 MST