Re: DNS lookup timeout problem

From: Duane Wessels <wessels>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 11:10:23 -0700

ajung@cs.uni-sb.de writes:

>We are running Squid 1.0.5 under Solaris 2.5. Sometimes Squid is
>unable to resolve a hostname. Using the CERN proxy running in parallel
>on our machine, we are able to resolve the same hostname. I think it is
>a DNS timeout problem. Is the timeout for the DNS server configurable ?
>
>Thanks in advance
>Andreas

There are no DNS lookup timeouts in Squid, apart from whatever
your resolver library does. Squid hands the name to a dnsserver,
the dnsserver issues gethostbyname() and blocks until that function
returns.

Duane W.
Received on Thu Aug 15 1996 - 11:10:27 MDT

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