* On 09/09/06 17:17 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: | On Sat, Sep 09, 2006, Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote: | | > | If so, is there some way to remove this requirement | > | that SQUID needs to be able to connect to DNS servers. | > | My setup is that all the internal hosts do their DNS | > | name resolution, and the system running SQUID will use | > | whatever resolved IP address the originating clients | > | used. | > | > Your question is not clear. Neither is your situation! | > How does the originating client pass the IP address to | > the machine running Squid, and to Squid itself? | | Squid already "gets" the IP address said client was connecting to. | It inquires the NAT/interception layer to find out where the client | connection was originally trying to talk to. | | It uses this to satisfy HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 requests without | Host: headers. I don't know how happy Squid would be without a | DNS server though; but it sounds like a useful feature to have | if it doesn't already do it (Henrik would know better than I.) | | If Squid doesn't do it then please file a feature request | in Bugzilla and we'll get to it after we've released Squid-3. | Yes, we're going to release Squid-3.0. And then 3.1. Honest :) You are going to release them even before the dust settles for 2.6? ;) BTW, why 3.0 and 3.1, if you're honest enough? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ *** System shutdown message from root *** System going down in 60 seconds
