Re: disable dnsserver - what is the cost?

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>Timur Tabi wrote:
>>
>> When I disable DNS support (i.e. don't let squid run
>> dnsserver), I get a warning that performance could be
>> very poor. Could someone explain, in layman's terms,
>> exactly how performance could be poor?
>
>If one user requests a host where a blocking DNS lookup is
>required,

Can you give me an example of a blocking DNS lookup?

>then Squid is completely blocked until this DNS
>lookup finishes which can be up to a minute. During this
>time no traffic at all passes Squid and the users may
>think that the Internet (or the proxy) is dead.

So as long as it appears to work normally, then I can assume
that the lack of dnsserver is not a problem.

>1.1.15 (not 1.1.5) is quite old (11 August 1997 == more
>than a year old). There are a number of known (or rather
>fixed and forgotten) issues with a version that old, not
>to mention a number of year 2000 issues. Perhaps you or
>someone else using OS/2 should look into porting a more
>recent version of Squid version to OS/2.

Well, 1.1.15 works quite well for me. And it would take
me until the year 2000 to understand how it works anyway.
By then, I hope someone will have a replacement.

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Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@tabi.org, http://www.tabi.org
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