Re: [squid-users] DNS & Squid

Short answer: No.

Long answer:

Because Squid caches objects on their host name it does not trust the IP
address resolved by the client. If it did then it would be trivial for
users to pollute the cache with any content they like.

With some coding it should be possible to optimize Squid for transparent
caches at a small expence in hit ratio. Services with multiple IP
addresses will then not be cached as one, but individually per
ip+hostname.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Luis Garces wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody.
> 
> I'm using squid as a transparent proxy cache, that is, without
> configuring clients to use it. I've been dealing with all the options
> about DNS in the squid.conf file, but I haven't found an option to
> disable DNS lookups. Is it possible to use squid without DNS ? I mean,
> if I can get the IP's of the Web servers squid has to access (as clients
> connect to the cache transparently), why should I need to resolv the
> name of those servers ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> --
> Luis
> ****