Amos, maybe if you create a googleForms (to populate a google spreadsheet) or something like that you will be able to read results and maybe post it in somewhere (just givin an idea). BTW, we have here about 15+ squid servers (in several locations and clients) and we dont use dnsserver helper. -- Att... Ricardo Felipe Klein klein.rfk@xxxxxxxxx On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As mentioned in the subject this is a call for feedback regarding the > prospect of removing the external DNS helper component from Squid and its > associated "dnsserver" binary. > > To most of you this will be known as the "--disable-internal-dns" build > option. > > Background: > The external helper was added back in the early 2.x releases to provide > Squid with a flexible DNS lookup and attain such high speeds as 250 requests > per second. The external helper has since been replaced by an internal DNS > resolver component which is much more performant and can handle several > thousands of requests per second, higher than that of any other component in > Squid and effetively removing DNS as a contention point in the processing. > > The external helper has been officially deprecated in Squid-2.7 and > Squid-3.0 for all installations which require only global DNS resolution. > However, system resolvers which are used by the dnsserver helper typically > offer DNS resolution using a number of mechanisms beyond global DNS (mDNS, > Bonjour, NetBIOS, WINS, etc) and we are aware that installations exist > relying on these additional services. > > > Given some recent advancements: > * The world has moved on from services such as NetBIOS and WINS > * Bonjour has grown up into mDNS > * The upcoming Squid-3.4 series internal DNS resolver will right now > support both global DNS and local multicast DNS (mDNS). > > > The question to you in the community from myself as Squid-3 maintainer, is > whether global DNS and mDNS resolver queries are sufficient to meet your > needs? > > If the consensus is that the upcoming 3.4 series internal resolver is > sufficiently featured to be used in all the current network installations of > Squid we may finally be in a position to remove the deprecated component > entirely in 3.4. > > If you are in any way reliant on the dnsserver helper for DNS service or > runnign a custom-built helper in its place, please do speak up. > > I look forward to your feedback, which may be posted here on the list or if > you require privacy for any reason you may contact me directly about this. > > > Amos Jeffries > Squid-3 Release Maintainer
