Re: squid using another hosts file than /etc/hosts

Squid-2.5 squid.conf:

hosts_file /etc/hosts

        Location of the host-local IP name-address associations
        database. Most Operating Systems have such a file: under
        Un*X it's by default in /etc/hosts MS-Windows NT/2000 places
        that in %SystemRoot%(by default
        c:\winnt)\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, while Windows 9x/ME
        places that in %windir%(usually c:\windows)\hosts

        The file contains newline-separated definitions, in the
        form ip_address_in_dotted_form name [name ...] names are
        whitespace-separated. lines beginnng with an hash (#)
        character are comments.

        The file is checked at startup and upon configuration. If
        set to 'none', it won't be checked. If append_domain is
        used, that domain will be added to domain-local (i.e. not
        containing any dot character) host definitions.

Julio Cesar Salas García wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am working on Squid to make it verify another hosts table than
> /etc/hosts, some kind of configuration for squid where it check for
> internal hosts ( but hosts different than DNS and /etc/hosts). this is
> important because the /etc/hosts file is very big... and it slows
> down the performance of the proxy.
>
> I'll appreciate that you could help me with this.
>
>
>
> Ing. Julio Cesar Salas García
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Received on Wed Jun 27 2001 - 12:13:44 MDT