On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> I think that you should keep at least one dnsserver. Blocking DNS
> lookups can block squid for a very long time (possibly 30 seconds or
> something similar) and during this time EVERYTHING (not only DNS
> requests) stands still.
Fine for a production Squid server (where we actually run a group of
dnsservers), but on a small system for testing patches and configuration
tweaks, the dnsservers are unnecessary (theoretically) - alas, Squid won't
run without 'em. :-)
> And as you saw, running squid without dnsserver is not tested in any way
Although the config file mentions the fact that you can do it...
> > Testing a small Squid (1.1.8) under Linux, I wanted to *not* use
> > "dnsserver" children (ie., be satisfied with blocking DNS queries), so
> > accordingly I set "dns_children" to zero (0) as recommended in the config
> > file. Alas, this doesn't work! "squid.out" records:
dave
Received on Wed Mar 19 1997 - 15:35:44 MST
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