Re: DNS server + Transparent Proxy

From: A.Saeed <arsh@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:27:22 +0500 (PKT)

What will be the solution of this problem.

To make our DNS more efficient and faster ??

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Michael Samuel wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, A.Saeed wrote:
>
> > Now we have to do something for it.
> > Im on a test if the proxy server and dns is on same machine??
>
> This isn't the problem. If you have the dns server on a machine on the
> same lan as squid, you should be fine, and need no changes.
>
> The problem is that when you transparently proxy, the clients (eg.
> netscape) need to do a DNS lookup of their own, which can be slow through
> a modem link (even worse if the primary nameserver is down).
>
> If your clients access through the proxy directly (rather than being
> transparently proxied), the client won't do a dns lookup, and then it's
> squid's problem to do the dns lookup (which it will probably have cached
> and will respond quickly).
>
>
> Michael Samuel,
>
> Surf-Net City - Internet Cafe and Internet Service Providers
> Phone: +61 3 9593-9977
> E-Mail: <michael@surfdirect.com.au>
> WWW: http://www.surfnetcity.com.au/~michael/
>
Received on Thu Mar 19 1998 - 03:39:15 MST

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