RE: 2.5 and the DNS

> It is a misfeature..
>
> When there is no valid DNS cache entry Squid automatically
> fires off another
> query even if one was sent very recently. There is currently
> no merging of
> DNS queries for different requests.
>
> This makes the design simpler and timeout logics consistent,
> but is not optimal.

This is not consistent with my observations.
What I see are repeated queries for names which squid I'm sure sure has
a valid reference for. Request merging is not really a problem.
The DNS server can do that. But it would seem that a query
is fired _before_ when the ipcache is consulted.

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	/kinkie