Re: Use of "dnsserver" vs named direct

Henrik Nordstrom writes:

>Duane Wessels wrote:
>
>> I've already removed the dnsservers, and taught Squid how to
>> speak DNS for version 2.3.
>
>Using what DNS library? libares or something else?

something else. Its all written from scratch. Squid sends
and receives its own DNS packets directly.

>And is it possible to revert Squid to gethostbyname/addr usage (i.e.
>dnsserver). People using Squid as an accelerator does not always have
>DNS configured with the backend (accelerated) hsots but instead use
>local hosts files to avoid the burden of building a split DNS system
>only for the accelerator.

Sure, the old code remains. I will have to add a configure option
to make it clean. --use-dnsservers?

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:58 MDT