Re: [squid-users] avoiding DNS lookups for some hosts

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:27:56PM +0100, Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. (Hons) G8TIC wrote:
>
> Put your host names in /etc/hosts and check that you have order
> hosts,bind in /etc/resolv.conf.
>

I should have mentioned that I did that already and that works but it
is hardly a scalable or safe solution as I would have to track any and
all changes.

> If that doesn't work then put up
> a DNS server on the same machine as squid and arrange it to
> be authorative for the intranet hosts (ie. appropriate master zone
> files) and a caching DNS resolver for everything else.
>

Hmmmmm that would work but, again, is not very neat to me. I may have
to set up a caching name server but I was hoping for some squid config
that would do the job...

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Brett Lymn