Re: [squid-users] preferred DNS config

From: Chris Robertson <crobertson_at_gci.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:35:22 -0900

Rick Chisholm wrote:
> What would you say is preferable - having squid hit a local instance of
> BIND (or djbdns) or pointing it at the closest upstream name server(s)?
>

It really depends on your situation, but I personally feel the more
caching, the better. Have a local instance of BIND (or djbdns or
dnsmasq) which uses the upstream name server as a forwarder. For what
it's worth, Squid does its own internal DNS caching as well (see
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/ipcache_size/,
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/positive_dns_ttl/ and
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/negative_dns_ttl/)

Chris
Received on Tue Dec 16 2008 - 01:35:43 MST

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