[squid-users] Re: How does DNS go through squid?

dravya wrote:

> I was wondering, DNS uses port 53 right? So how does squid do DNS lookups?

By making a request to UDP port 53 of a domain server.

> If I set my browser settings manually, and type a non-existing url. I get
> a message from squid saying it couldn't do a look up. However, when I make
> squid transparent. I don't see the same page again.

The browser doesn't think it's using a proxy, so it ignores the error.

Adam
Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 14:50:23 MDT