RE: [squid-users] DNS

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:21:34 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Gert Brits wrote:

> It is more about personal choice that anything else. If you have a server
> doing DNS for you, rather use that server.
>
> I like to use Squid proxy server only as a proxy server, and not add any
> other services as well.
>
> Just add the external DNS server under your /etc/resolve.conf file....

What is important to add is that if you are behind a slow/overloaded link
then there is great benefit of having a DNS server on your side of the
link. It does not really matter if this DNS server is on the same server
as Squid or on a separate server.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Aug 17 2004 - 02:21:38 MDT

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