Re: [squid-users] http-accelerator for two servers at the same ti me?

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002, sean.upton@uniontrib.com wrote:
> hint: in addition to other tips in response to this message, you have two
> options to resolve your beckend servers:
>
> - use a redirector to do URL rewriting as a means of supporting virtual
> hosting.
> - compile Squid with --disable-internal-dns, because you will likely want to
> have your accelerator use /etc/hosts to resolve your backend servers, unless
> you have more than a handful, and you need to use dnsserver if you want to
> do this. This shouldn't be a big problem in terms of performance because an
> accelerator generally almost always uses cached IP lookups. If you decided
> not to do this and use DNS instead, you would have to make sure to use a
> private DNS for your backend servers, as a means of avoiding a forwarding
> loop...

.. squid-2.5 lets you actually read /etc/hosts (or any other hosts file
that you wish to specify in squid.conf) as a means of doing the hostname
translation for acceleration.

Its quite nice (I'm using it at the moment) and it works with
the internal DNS server quite well.

adrian
Received on Fri Mar 08 2002 - 20:16:23 MST