I have around 25 client machines, so not quite "home" sized, but not big either. I did try both the routers IP address and the ISP's advertised name servers. Speed-wise they seemed about the same. I'm on a DSL connection which says its link speed is 16Mbit down and 1Mbit up. MarkJ ----- Original Message ----- > From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: TarotApprentice <tarotapprentice@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, 15 July 2015, 0:55 > Subject: Re: Which DNS to use > > On Tuesday 14 Jul 2015 at 13:59, TarotApprentice wrote: > >> I have a domestic DSL router/firewall/wifi > > If, by "domestic", you mean something serving a home network with a > very small > number of users (eg: up to 10), I would say it doesn't really matter. > > If you just mean it's one of those all-in-one devices, but you're > serving a > network with a decent number of users on it, then... > >> When configuring squid should I refer to the routers IP address for >> DNS, specify the one(s) the ISP providing or use alternative ones (like >> the examples in squid.conf). Is there a recommend way? > > I would suggest installing a simple caching DNS server on the Squid box (with > a root zone file, such as is standard with ISC BIND) and let it do its own > lookups / caching. Point your internal clients at it as well as Squid itself. > > If you point Squid at the router IP, that's almost certainly just a (non- > caching) forwarder to your ISP, so it's less efficient than pointing at the > ISP directly, and pointing at your ISP will be marginally slower and less > efficient than running your own caching DNS server. > > However, depending on your network bandwidth and number of users, you may not > be able to tell the difference (the lower both these numbers are, the less > likely you'll notice anything by running your own instead of just pointing > at > > the ISP). > > > Regards, > > > Antony. > > -- > "A person lives in the UK, but commutes to France daily for work. > He belongs in the UK." > > - From UK Revenue & Customs notice 741, page 13, paragraph 3.5.1 > - http://tinyurl.com/o7gnm4 > > Please reply to the list; > please *don't* CC > me. > _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
