Re: [squid-users] Squid and DNS caching

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:35:49 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, SirWING wrote:

> As I understand it Squid has it's own internal DNS cache, which is
> enabled by default unless you compile Squid with the
> --without-internal-dns flag.

The cache is always there. This flag only selects the older "dnsserver"
approach of making concurrent DNS lookups to your DNS server.

> How can I see that the DNS caching is running?

cachemgr has some info on the DNS cache hit ratio.

> Is squid still using the
> daemon/application "dnsserver" which usually is located in
> /usr/lib/squid ? (the file is nowhere to be found)

Not unless your Squid is built with --without-internal-dns.

> Are there any settings for squid.conf for the internal DNS caching? I
> wasn't able to find any.

Look for ipcache.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Apr 08 2005 - 06:35:51 MDT

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