Re: [squid-users] dnsserver redundancy?

Reischl, Brian wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm running Squid 2.4 STABLE2 with external dnsserver because I need
> it to use search domains. Everything is working great, except that I've
> noticed that I occasionally get warning that all the dnsservers are
> busy. Thankfully this isn't a big problem yet, but it could be when
> Friday rolls around and everyone is slacking & surfing the net :)
>
>
> I've already increased the number of children to 32, but I still need
> to handle more requests. The DNS server is a Solaris box on the same
> LAN, so there's no help there. I saw another poster had the great idea
> of using ipf to redirect half the requests to another squid, but I'd
> prefer to avoid anything that drastic. Is there any other way to
> increase the efficiency of DNS lookups, or the number of children, short
> of learning to write C?

I think 2.5DEVEL has support for search and hosts files in the internal
dns resolver. Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm misremembering
seeing that feature in the CVS changelog a few weeks ago...

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