Hi, (This might be considered tangential to this list. My apologies if so. I've searched the squid mailing list archives, FAQ, and Google without getting an answer, and squid-users@ is where I'll find the people who have dealt with this before.) I'm running squid 2.6 stable 9, on Linux. Our clients are configured to access the proxy via a proxy.pac file. We want our clients to access internal Web sites directly, but access external sites only through the proxy. Our clients are migrating from having full access to public DNS, to having access to only the internal private DNS. (Not my idea, but when global management says do it, you do it.) When we switch a client over to the private DNS, Web surfing slows a great deal. Packet sniffing shows that the client is talking to the proxy, but the client is also trying all of its DNS servers to resolve the hostname of the Web site. With complex Web sites this can take a while -- for example, the front page for www.cnn.com has several hostnames in it. I suspect this is causing the very slow access. Do other people see this behavior? What did you do? Surely we're not the first people to use Squid, IE, and private DNS? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@xxxxxxxxxxx, mwlucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Latest book: PGP & GPG -- http://www.pgpandgpg.com "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring." -Non Sequitur
