Re: [squid-users] Avoiding DNS lookups in squid

On 17/05/2013 10:18 p.m., Satish Thareja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to remove DNS lookup capability from squid, given that
> the client will anyways be doing the DNS resolution.
> Can this redundancy be removed ??

In what context?

Reverse-proxy and forward-proxy traffic can be passed through Squid
without ever triggering DNS. But interception proxy traffic required DNS
for the validity checks that enable/disable all sorts of components
handling of the requests inside Squid.

Amos
Received on Fri May 17 2013 - 10:40:02 MDT