Re: [squid-users] squid as reverse proxy for DNS ?

a.bell.is.a.cup. until.it.is.struck wrote:
> Hi,
> I am in the market for a reverse proxy that does intelligent load
> balancing for DNS.
I don't recall squid handling UDP traffic... You'll definitely get a
more authoritative answer from the others.

However, if you don't care about inspecting traffic it's pretty simple
to set up a UDP relay. You basically listen for traffic and whatever
comes in you fire it at the target, and whatever comes back you fire
back to the client. No muss no fuss. You're data isn't going to be big
and complicated, you're talking about messages of 512 bytes or less. I
made a little program that does this a few years ago, which i can
(probably) track down if you're interested in a tinker project. But it
doesn't handle any dns TCP traffic, which (guessing) probably isn't
going to happen with your usual client.

You might want to set up an ISC bind configuration to accomplish your goals.

Waitman
Received on Mon Aug 24 2009 - 19:37:16 MDT