Amos Jeffries wrote: >> 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. > thanks, that pretty much confirms what I thought. -- Rick Chisholm sysadmin Parallel42
