Re: [SQU] Confuse about dnsserver

Catalin Tatu wrote:

> How squid work ? With his dnsserver or read from /etc/host ?

The default for Squid-2.3 is to use a internal DNS resolver. This does
only make use if DNS and does not read /etc/hosts.

> If I compile with --enable-internal-dns and write in squid.conf :
> cache_dns_program /path/to/dnsserver
> dns_children 10
> when squid start it said that unknown "directive" in line
> cache_dns_program and line dns_children. Why ?

The directive is --disable-internal-dns. This will enable the old
dnsserver helper approach which uses gethostbyname() to resolve names.
This will use what ever mechanisms your host server is configured to
use. (usually /etc/hosts, DNS)

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
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