Re: Squid DNS Problem?

Did you check if you're logging (access.log) with DNS reverse
resolution?
This might not be such a good idea on a busy cache...
--jp

Paul Quilty wrote:

> Hi I am having problems with my squid proxy servers. We have tracked
> down a problem with dns, taking a while to respond and timeout of non
> responding servers. what happens is requests queue up and the squid
> seems to wait for them before it will make a connection. This is
> slowing down the time it takes to server pages to the customers. any
> ideas on what we can do to fix this. We have installed a nameserver on
> the proxy itself and configured it to forward requests out to other
> close nameservers, ie upstream dns servers and others that are close
> to us. still the dns manages to get a large backlog and slows down the
> proxy. would you be able to send us a copy of your squid.conf file
> ??and what options did you use with the ./configure when you were
> bulding squid? Thank you

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