RE: [squid-users] DNS

Adding to it, internel DNS means, squid uses its own
lookup functionality for Domain names, and well if you
are not using it ...its your choice. I have my own
personal expreince that proxy+DNS server works fine.
--- Elsen Marc <elsen@imec.be> wrote:

>
>
> > HI Experts,
> >
> > I am running Squid 2.5 STABLE 6 over Linux
> Enterprise 3 on IBM 345
> > Series Server having 1 GM ram.
> >
> > Should I use internal DNS of squid for squid and
> my Internet Users? Or
> > DNS should be on separate machine, I guess with 1
> GB ram, it
> > won't be a
> > problem to use internal one, Squid handles about
> 50 requests / sec in
> > peak times.
>
> 'Internal DNS' refers to whether SQUID uses an
> external process
> for performing DNS lookups or not.
> Hence , in that context speaking of DNS on a
> separate machine is meaningless
> since SQUID needs to do DNS lookups in order to be
> able to 'work'.
>
> DNS servers used however, are (indeed) specified in
> /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> In normal circumstances, using internal DNS (the
> default) will be work
> just fine.
>
> M.
>

=====
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Mohsin Khan
CCNA ( Cisco Certified Network Associate 2.0 )
http://pk.aaghaz.net

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Received on Mon Aug 16 2004 - 08:55:04 MDT