Udo Hoerhold wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a proxy to cache just DNS requests on my local machine. Is > Squid a good choice for this, or should I look for something lighter?
Squid is a http proxy, it maintains a dns cache, in the context of what it does. Meaning that squid can not be a 'dns catcher' for all apps. running or going through a particular squid based box. M. > > Also, I didn't see this explicitly stated in the configuration manual, but for > DNS caching (on a Linux machine) should I set the nameserver in resolv.conf > to 127.0.0.1 (so apps use the local cache), and pass the addresses of my ISPs > DNS servers as the dns_nameservers parameter? > > Thanks, > > Udo Hoerhold -- 'Time is a consequence of Matter thus General Relativity is a direct consequence of QM (M.E. Mar 2002)
