Re: [squid-users] squid / DNS name servers

* On 09/09/06 17:17 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
| On Sat, Sep 09, 2006, Odhiambo WASHINGTON wrote:
|
| > | If so, is there some way to remove this requirement
| > | that SQUID needs to be able to connect to DNS servers.
| > | My setup is that all the internal hosts do their DNS
| > | name resolution, and the system running SQUID will use
| > | whatever resolved IP address the originating clients
| > | used.
| >
| > Your question is not clear. Neither is your situation!
| > How does the originating client pass the IP address to
| > the machine running Squid, and to Squid itself?
|
| Squid already "gets" the IP address said client was connecting to.
| It inquires the NAT/interception layer to find out where the client
| connection was originally trying to talk to.
|
| It uses this to satisfy HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 requests without
| Host: headers. I don't know how happy Squid would be without a
| DNS server though; but it sounds like a useful feature to have
| if it doesn't already do it (Henrik would know better than I.)
|
| If Squid doesn't do it then please file a feature request
| in Bugzilla and we'll get to it after we've released Squid-3.
| Yes, we're going to release Squid-3.0. And then 3.1. Honest :)

You are going to release them even before the dust settles for 2.6? ;)
BTW, why 3.0 and 3.1, if you're honest enough?

-Wash

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