Re: Fwd: [squid-users] URL redirection in offline mode

>
> When a browser is configured to use a proxy it *never* performs DNS for
> traffic sent there. The proxy does it all instead. When a browser is not
> aware of the proxy (NAT interception) it performs its own DNS which gets
> discarded again as the packets enter the proxy.

oo..i see. squid will do the dns lookup for the browser.
>
> DNS inside Squid follows required specifications. Yes it caches DNS, for
> the times required by individual IPs and domains. If you don't understand
> any of it *don't touch*. Preventing caching of these will result in your
> users spending very large amounts of time waiting for pages to arrive.

Is it able to set squid to always ask for new dns? i means that, the
dns in squid become old/stale and squid
perform new dns lookup for fresh dns when new request come from
browser. in my mind, i think that i can play with the ttl.?

thanks
Received on Wed Oct 20 2010 - 01:11:45 MDT