Hi Henrik, Thank you for your advice! I managed to disable dns resolving by putting an "always_direct" deny statement for the domains behind the cache-peer in squid.conf Case closed! Once again thank you very much for assistance! Dirk -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:50 AM To: Plas, Dirk van der Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to disable dns resolving only for domains"behind" cache-peer??? tor 2006-12-21 klockan 10:43 +0100 skrev Plas, Dirk van der: > 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. Squid resolves DNS names when a) http_access processing reaches an ACL dependent on the destiation IP. b) If it tries to go direct to the origin (never_direct not in effect). c) If you for some reason have enabled ICMP pinging. Regards Henrik