Re: [squid-users] dns queries failed, follow-up

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 20:06:25 +0200

Andrei B. wrote:

> I had udp_outgoing_address set to ip-private (some 10. )
>
> _ALL_ name queries were going from this source address.
> Since this configuration item is used solely for ICP, then why name
> resolution queries source from this address also?

The description is wrong. The directive is used as it is named. It sets
the address used for any outgoing UDP packets, except those that are in
direct reply to other received UDP based queries.

Generally udp_outgoing_address should not be set, but in some odd cases
one migt want to set it, but then usually to the external IP.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Received on Fri May 04 2001 - 13:00:28 MDT

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