> 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? You could use proxy.pac to tell the browser to go direct.
