In fact, I was observing a recently restarted server. At one another that was running for a long time, I could see the fqdncache almost full (about 1000 entries). I increased fqdncache_size to 10k, lets see if both servers now can cache more entries and reduce the queries to the DNS servers. thanks On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Carlos Defoe <carlosdefoe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > Watching "cache_object://127.0.0.1/fqdncache" and > "cache_object://127.0.0.1/idns", I'm thinking that squid is sending > too much queries to my DNS servers. > > Should fqdncache shows a lot of entries? Mine only shows about 10 > entries cached, while idns shows thousands of queries to my DNS > servers. > > Is this normal? If not, how can I improve the dns cache behavior? > > thanks, > > Carlos