Dear Henrik and all, I have a question about dns lookup in squid, I've ever read about how squid effects on incremental ping caused by not well configured dns on OS layer. I think I'm in this situation right now, pinging back to normal when I stop squid, but after several hours ping increasing to the number let's say more than 10000ms. I use satellite connection 256/1024kbps. My box runs FreeBSD 5.3 with 3GB of RAM this is my /etc/resolv.conf: domain mydomain #single address domain nameserver itsownip My LAN does not have dns naming, I run my own dns server using bind9.3.0, this box doing natd too, and squid's not running transparently. This is how my squid configured: --enable-truncate --disable-unlinkd --prefix=/server/squid --enable-underscores --enable-err-languages=English --enable-kill-parent-hack --enable-removal-policies --enable-storeio=aufs,ufs,diskd --enable-delay-pools --enable-xmalloc-statistics --disable-internal-dns I've tried both enable and disable internal dns I use line cache_mem 1024 MB on squid.conf I need enlightment from you guys Regards, ::DAMK::