Hi Henrik, and again thanks for your quick reply. >> acl whitelistip dst some.ip.addresses.here >> http_access allow whitelistip > and the use here matches your description above.. (whitelist quick, other > slow). Okay, so it seems I'm using the wrong ACL type, but which one would be right? The reason I created the whitelistip acl in addition to the domain-based one is that these IPs do not have DNS records. IOW, I don't need the functionality that squid checks if the DNS name a user entered matches the IP in this list, I only need to check if the IP entered by the user is one of the IPs in this list. Would I have to use regular expressions for that, or is there a simpler way? Also, what I don't understand is why a DNS server that doesn't know the queried IP/DNS, and also doesn't know which other DNS servers to ask, still speeds up the process. Now, I'm anything but a DNS guru, so maybe somebody could explain this behavior to me? Kind Regards, Stefan Baur