Hello Squid experts, I have the following setup: A Squid 2.5.11 caching proxy-server used for accessing internal (intranet) and internet websites. Squid is able to resolve all external FQDN's. The internal websites are reached via a cache-peer relationship with another proxy-server (not under my control). Internal websites are not dns-resolvable, due to security-policy. (Unfortunately this is something I have to deal with, I can't change this security policy) During normal operation everything works fine; both external and internal websites are reachable. But when our internet connection goes down we notice that internal websites take a very, very, very long time to load. I did some investigation while internet connection was down and saw that squid is trying to perform dns-resolving for domains behind cache-peer. Somehow squid seems to wait for DNS queries to timeout before it sends it requests to cache-peer. My questions: -is there a setting in squid which disables dns-resolving for domains behind a cache-peer? In my opinion there is no need for squid to try to resolve domains behind a cache-peer, because squid never establishes a direct connection to this domains. -do you have another solution/workaround for this problem? Cheers! Dirk
