Re: DNS bottle neck

> "R.Ilker Gokhan" wrote:
> >From: Roger Harrysson [mailto:roger_harrysson@hotmail.com]
> >2000/06/06 23:59:25| WARNING: Closing open FD 51
> >FATAL: Too many queued dnsserver requests
>
> i have gotten the above error and found this answer from the archive.
>
> From Henrik (Thanks Henrik):
>
> The above error message is likely caused by an overloaded DNS server,
> or when there is a major Internet network breakdown. Try running a
> caching DNS server on the same machine as Squid to take some load off your
> other DNS server.

So much for archives... You can switch to a recent Squid (starting
with 2.3), and use its internal DNS feature (the default). Using the
external DNS resolver helps to cover certain special cases now, e.g.
the internal DNS resolver does *not* look into /etc/hosts, the
external might, depending on your system's configuration.

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