----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Venkatesh. K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mahmood Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid IPCache v. BIND Caching-Only DNS
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Venkatesh. K wrote: > > > Nope. It is better to cache dns lookups in squid even though you end up > > using some memory for ip and dns cache in squid. > > > > I don't have real stats on the performance hit if squid does not cache ip > > and name lookups, but I like to play safe. > > You can't disable the ip_cache. It is required for proper operation. > > You can limit it's size somewhat, but generally there is no reason to do > so as it is not very big to start with. > > If your current DNS server is on a high latency link then running a > caching DNS for Squid and other DNS uses is recommended, alternatively > increase the ipcache size in squid.conf. > > Please keep in mind that a caching DNS server can use quite a fair bit of > memory, so keep an eye on total memory usage by the system after making > such change. Yes. I should have pointed it out. It never occured to me as I use dnscache from djbdns. You can control the amount of memory used for caching with dnscache Venkatesh K >
