> What would you say is preferable - having squid hit a local instance of > BIND (or djbdns) or pointing it at the closest upstream name server(s)? > It doesn't really matter per-se. Squid performs full TTL caching of DNS results same a DNS server would. The real issue is lag time between Squid and its' supplier of DNS info. If you have a local recursive server, its usually giving less lag than an upstream one would. Amos