Re: Determine which nameservers are used by Squid?

Steve Snyder wrote:

> >There is an "Internal DNS Statistics" page on the cachemgr menu. It tells
> >you how many queries got sent to each server, and how many
> >replies were received. It doesn't
> >say anything about response times at the moment.
>
> No, those statistics refer to Squid's "dnsserver" child processes. It
> is these child processes that call the nameservers listed in
> /etc/resolv.conf. That means I can know the frequency of the
> "dnsserver" calls, but (as far as I know) not the name resolution
> calls made *by* "dnsserver" to the nameservers.

The "Internal DNS Statistics" Duane is referring to is a Squid-2.3
thingy, not available in Squid-2.2.

Squid-2.3 has a native DNS client implementation and does not use
dnsserver.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker