Hi, Thanks for response & sorry for late reply coz i have just recovered from fever.... >Are they the same ones constantly? even after the timeout is reported to clients? No, the ids remains changing but all the clients keep on receiving timeout message. Here is first output of #squidclient mgr:idns HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: squid/3.1.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:05:19 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Expires: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:05:19 GMT Last-Modified: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:05:19 GMT X-Cache: MISS from localhost X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from localhost:3128 Via: 1.0 localhost (squid/3.1.20) Connection: close Internal DNS Statistics: The Queue: DELAY SINCE ID SIZE SENDS FIRST SEND LAST SEND ------ ---- ----- ---------- --------- 0xe1c6 42 5 40.115 10.043 0x4986 32 3 15.175 5.043 0xec04 46 5 31.429 1.043 0xdf69 31 7 107.340 37.043 0x0142 35 7 107.810 37.043 0x8f6d 33 7 97.736 27.043 0xa9c0 34 5 47.918 17.043 0x7f72 43 8 128.336 18.043 0xcbdd 31 8 113.573 3.043 0x171e 42 7 108.646 38.043 0x0322 40 1 3.502 3.502 0xb37c 41 7 104.886 34.043 0x92b0 33 5 44.396 14.043 0xad63 35 5 39.893 9.043 0x7fdc 36 4 24.085 4.043 Nameservers: IP ADDRESS # QUERIES # REPLIES ---------------------------------------------- --------- --------- 8.8.8.8 1415 1280 116.71.241.216 123 78 Rcode Matrix: RCODE ATTEMPT1 ATTEMPT2 ATTEMPT3 0 1357 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 Here the output after some time #squidclient mgr:idns HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: squid/3.1.20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:07:51 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Expires: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:07:51 GMT Last-Modified: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:07:51 GMT X-Cache: MISS from localhost X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from localhost:3128 Via: 1.0 localhost (squid/3.1.20) Connection: close Internal DNS Statistics: The Queue: DELAY SINCE ID SIZE SENDS FIRST SEND LAST SEND ------ ---- ----- ---------- --------- 0x4404 30 7 95.739 25.606 0x2cd5 47 6 51.019 0.574 0x98aa 52 4 26.420 5.575 0x47e2 44 7 96.915 26.606 0x0202 49 7 97.356 26.606 0x6562 35 7 81.892 11.575 0x48bc 34 7 83.672 12.575 0xfe15 35 7 108.975 38.641 0x638c 33 7 104.046 33.606 0x7968 43 1 4.246 4.246 0x817e 35 8 115.102 4.575 0xbe90 31 7 104.791 34.607 0x9db5 33 5 40.197 9.575 Nameservers: IP ADDRESS # QUERIES # REPLIES ---------------------------------------------- --------- --------- 8.8.8.8 1472 1280 116.71.241.216 182 78 Rcode Matrix: RCODE ATTEMPT1 ATTEMPT2 ATTEMPT3 0 1357 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 >Also try to debug why DNS is not responding immediately. Command line >from the Squid box: > dig -t AAAA example.com @<your DNS server> > dig -t A example.com @<your DNS server> Dig command shows that the dns are working fine, also the https queries are working well. -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/DNS-Returned-Timeout-Issue-tp4658603p4658692.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.