Re: [squid-users] DNS timeouts - unable to reduce timeout

2010-11-21 Thread Marcus Kool
DNS lookups are done by the resolver. Options on Linux can be set in /etc/resolv.conf (see also man resolv.conf). The default timeout is only 5 seconds and any program, including Squid, that does a nameserver query should get an answer (including an error) in 5 seconds. In my case I have 3

Re: [squid-users] DNS timeouts - unable to reduce timeout

2010-11-21 Thread declanw
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:18:02AM -0200, Marcus Kool wrote: DNS lookups are done by the resolver. They are done by the (libc) resolver if the program use the resolver API. Squid does not use the resolver API, so it does not use this resolver. Options on Linux can be set in /etc/resolv.conf

Re: [squid-users] DNS timeouts - unable to reduce timeout

2010-11-21 Thread Amos Jeffries
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:07:28 +, declan wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:18:02AM -0200, Marcus Kool wrote: DNS lookups are done by the resolver. They are done by the (libc) resolver if the program use the resolver API. Squid does not use the resolver API, so it does not use this

[squid-users] DNS timeouts - unable to reduce timeout

2010-11-19 Thread declanw
Hullo. I have a squid 3.1.9, which has an acl that needs to know the DNS domain name of a target IP (yes, I know it slows things down, but it has to stay) I have a lot of users viewing Flash streams hosted by Akamai, but Akamai's reverse DNS servers for e.g. 83.231.150.45 are currently

Re: [squid-users] DNS timeouts - unable to reduce timeout

2010-11-19 Thread Nick Cairncross
Don't know if it's if use but could dnsmasq speed this up? On 19 Nov 2010, at 19:41, decl...@is.bbc.co.uk decl...@is.bbc.co.uk wrote: Hullo. I have a squid 3.1.9, which has an acl that needs to know the DNS domain name of a target IP (yes, I know it slows things down, but it has to stay)