On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, H Matik wrote:
I never needed this and only now it came to my attention.
if hosts_file is not in squid.conf it still tries /etc/hosts right?
Yes, but it is only read on startup. Any changes done to /etc/hosts will not be automatically picked up by Squid.
but anyway squid does not respect OS settings as in /etc/host.conf ?
Correct.
Well, this is in the default configure options.
If you on the other hand build Squid with --disable-internal-dns then it will use the OS resolver functions with all it's nsswitch/hosts.conf magic, but at a significant performance penalty due to the API limitations of the OS resolver functions.
Regards Henrik
