Todd Nine schrieb: I have another question on the efficiency > side. I'd like to use domain name for ease of configuration, however I > know > it is less efficient than using IP. Is it less efficient for the first > proxy request (IE does apache cache the IP after the first lookup?), or > does it look up the server every time? I can't answer this for sure but it seems lookups are not cached by apache. However the client (XP, linux) does cache lookups. The cachetime for positive lookups on XP is rather high (24 hours or so). If you don't need the added flexibility of dns names, IPs are fine. If that really makes a difference wrt performance I don't know. cheers Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx