Hi Amos, Thanks for the reply. I could now understand the meaning of transparent proxy wrt DNS lookups ! Regards, Anita -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/DNS-Squid-tree-with-parent-child-tp4573394p4585612.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.