Hi, There's an old discussion in these archives about how squid does a DNS lookup on the requested hostname and directs the request to the IP returned from DNS, effectively bypassing the destination IP supplied by the squid client, and I fully understand and take on board the reasons given for this, viz to prevent cache poisioning by spoofing domains. However, there is a very valid reason for not wanting this behaviour in some instances, and that's to test releases of web applications in a development environment by spoofing the production environment with hosts file entries, and in this case you wouldn't want to be viewing cached content anyway, so my question is this - is there a way of telling squid to just pass the request on wholesale to the requested IP without doing any DNS, and without caching? I don't think that always_direct does what I want, as squid still does the DNS lookup here. I can't believe that I'm the only one with this requirement, so how have others solved it? Thanks, Mike
