RE: Squid and firewalls

You definitely do not need a parent cache.
Depending on the version of Squid, it may or may not use the external helper
app, dnsserver. This simply uses whatever DNS settings the machine has
(/etc/resolv.conf).

You can specify the DNS servers to be used within the squid.conf file
dns_nameservers <IP LIST>

Matt.

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Matt Hunter
-----Original Message-----
From: Shuaib Khan [mailto:shuaib.khan@sde.eu.sony.com]
Sent: 05 July 2000 15:14
To: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Squid and firewalls
Hi Everyone,
I'm setting up squid and need to know the following :-
(It is set up behind a firewall at the moment)
How can I make it NOT do its own DNS lookups and instead just pass the
request 
on.
As its behind a firewall must it have a parent cache? Why is this and is
there a 
way around it?
Thanks in advance,
Shuaib.