Hi All, Can someone throw some light on how the Squid DNS internal client works? I came across this: Disadv of using internal client Can use only the DNS nameservers mentioned in the squid.conf file for resolution. If it is not present there, it will give a DNS error. Adv of using external client (uses system libraries: sys calls like gethostbyname, ..) Can use DNS nameservers + etc/hosts or WINS ,etc for lookup depending on configuration if nameservers report negative. (courtesy: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/web-squid-dns-client-options.html) But what I dont understand is, I am using only DNS internal client for my squid. But I have not configured any nameservers and hence did not mention that in my squid.conf. In this case, it is anyway reading from /etc/hosts file. So how is it different from the external DNS client except for the ttl part? I especially dont understand the advantage of using the external client, i.e. it can look up outside nameservers. I believe in my case, it is any way looking up into etc/host file when i use the internal client. thanks. -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Squid-DNS-internal-client-tp4620506.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
