Hi List, I'm having an issue with squid responding rather slowly when it is to display an "Access Denied" message. Accessing sites on the whitelist works fast and fine, however. There is no DNS server in the network, all DNS lookups are supposed to take place with the parent proxy. I'm guessing that upon displaying the error page, squid wants to do a reverse DNS lookup, and times out. This assumption is based on the fact that when I specify a fake DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf it returns the error page immediately ("Fake" meaning the DNS server is configured to listen on the port, but reject all requests not originating from its own IP.) How can I solve this issue? I would prefer not having to run a DNS server, to keep the setup as simple as possible. The following info might be of help in analyzing the issue: Current OS is Debian stable, with a few unstable/testing packages mixed in, but the same effect also appears on SuSE 8.2. squid runs with the following parameters: -D -sYC squid -version Squid Cache: Version 2.5.STABLE7 configure options: --prefix=/usr --exec_prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/sbin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid --sysconfdir=/etc/squid --localstatedir=/var/spool/squid --datadir=/usr/share/squid --enable-async-io --with-pthreads --enable-storeio=ufs,aufs,diskd,null --enable-linux-netfilter --enable-arp-acl --enable-removal-policies=lru,heap --enable-snmp --enable-delay-pools --enable-htcp --enable-poll --enable-cache-digests --enable-underscores --enable-referer-log --enable-useragent-log --enable-auth=basic,digest,ntlm --enable-carp --enable-large-files i386-debian-linux squid.conf: http_port 8080 icp_port 0 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY cache_access_log /var/log/squid/access.log ftp_user info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl SSL_ports port 443 563 acl Safe_ports port 80 acl Safe_ports port 21 acl Safe_ports port 443 563 acl Safe_ports port 70 acl Safe_ports port 210 acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 acl Safe_ports port 280 acl Safe_ports port 488 acl Safe_ports port 591 acl Safe_ports port 631 acl Safe_ports port 777 acl Safe_ports port 901 acl purge method PURGE acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl unsernetz src my.network.here.0/255.255.0.0 acl whitelist dstdomain .some.domains.he.re acl whitelistip dst some.ip.addresses.here acl termserv_vollzugang src single.ip.he.re acl downloads urlpath_regex -i \.exe$ \.zip$ acl unsereproxies src parent.proxy.he.re never_direct allow all http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access allow purge localhost http_access deny purge http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access allow localhost http_access deny !unsernetz http_access allow unsereproxies http_access deny downloads http_access allow whitelist http_access allow whitelistip http_access allow termserv_vollzugang http_access deny all http_reply_access allow all icp_access allow all visible_hostname PROXYNAME error_directory /usr/share/squid/errors/German cache_peer parent.proxy..ip.here parent 8080 0 no-query no-netdb-exchange cache_mgr proxy-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx unique_hostname PROXYNAME Thanks in Advance & Kind Regards, Stefan Baur