On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Hendrik Voigtländer wrote:
> how about caching-only bind sitting on the same machines as the
> squid-daemons? resolv.conf points to localhost in this setup.
> Deploying a local caching nameserver is mentioned in several performance
> howtos (after setting up the ipcache the right way of course).
This also helps, but if your DNS server is on the local LAN and not
(very) overloaded the difference is minimal.
If you are running an transparent proxy then there is great benefit from
having Squid ask the same DNS server as the clients, either directly, or
as forwarder from a local caching dns.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Sep 30 2004 - 16:52:10 MDT
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