Re: What is the advantage of internal DNS?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 19:57:47 +0200

Mark Foster wrote:

> 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.

I have a patch for that, causing Squid to return a "temporary network
overload" error when the dnsserver queue is overfull. The patch is
probably downloadable from the patch manager on SourceForge, or
available on my patches pages.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
http://squid.sourceforge.net/hno/
Received on Mon Apr 03 2000 - 12:13:14 MDT

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