For the archives: It's not DNS, it's WINS. Disabling WINS made this problem disappear. Sorry for the noise. ==ml On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:16:58AM -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > 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 -- 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
