Re: What is the advantage of internal DNS?

On Monday, April 3, 2000 10:35 am -0400
Steve Snyder <swsnyder@home.com> wrote:

> Apart from saving the RAM otherwised used for external DNS resolution
> (e.g. "dns_children 5") what is the advantage of using Squid v2.3's
> internal resolution?

The biggest advantage that I have found is that squid does not die
when your link to the world disappears and dns requests start backing
up. It's worth it for this alone.

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