Re: [squid-users] An "Ask Slashdot" article regarding transparent proxy

No. You don't tweak DNS to point everything at the Squid box for
transparency, and Squid would be impacted by this. The workaround for
this specific problem is to allow your local DNS to service requests for
thos alternative TLDs.

This may not solve all issues with Squid (or any proxy) in transparent
proxy modes. I haven't poked at it enough yet to know.

nick wrote:
> The article is available here:
> http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/02/03/22/1948236.shtml?tid=95
>
> From my understanding, in order to use Squid as transparent proxy, you
> also have to tweak local DNS setting, so that foo.com, bar.com, etc.
> will all be mapped to local squid server(s). So I'm pretty sure the ISP
> mentioned in the article is not using squid. Anyone care to shed more
> light on this matter? It's an interesting read anyway.
>
> -nick

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