Re: FATAL: Too many queued dnsserver requests

Borek Lupomesky wrote:

> Sometimes my squid 2.2STABLE-3 terminates abnormally with this message
> in log. It appears to me that this happens when there are problems with
> Internet conectivity and many DNS requests cannot be resolved. Is there
> something I could do to prevent this? Is upgrade to 2.3STABLE recommended
> (I know it doesn't use separate dnsservers by default).

I have a Squid-2.2 patch which changes Squid to simply return a
"temporary network overload" error message to the user, instead of
aborting. See http://squid.sourceforge.net/ (the patch is currently in
the SourceForge patch manager, but will be moved to my Squid pages
shortly)

Made the patch about a week ago when we had a major Internet blackout
(first connectivity to other national operators than out main operator
was lost for some time, then the link to the US), causing our customized
Squid-2.2 installations to go havoc.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker