That sounds plausable. I'm surprised it isn't doing that already. Throw it into a bugzilla report so it isn't forgotten. Adrian On Sun, Feb 24, 2008, Tim Connors wrote: > I am having trouble on two machines on two completely different networks, > both using squid -- for months now, a reasonably portion of the time, > squid fails to get through to google.com.au for the first minute. A > tcpdump revealed that it was failing when trying to contact the same > 72.14.203.104 host. After a minute, squid would try the next host in the > cached DNS result. Since both machines have 4 addresses in their cached > result of google.com.au, and both included 72.14.203.104, one in 4 > searches would take a minute to get a result. > > In the event that a hostname resolves to n>1 IPs, and one or more of them > m<=n-1 are timing out (or connection refused and certain other error > conditions), I think squid should cache this result for a configurable > time (of the order of days or until a restart, or until DNS has > refreshed its list of IPs for that host), and then not try that IP > again until it has exhausted its supply of IPs corresponding to this name. > > Have I perhaps missed this setting, or am misunderstanding something that > would make this not work? > > -- > Tim Connors -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
