Re: [squid-users] Fw: Dns queries to to backend servers

1. Yes, squid's resolver will cache the results.
2. This is a terrible way to balance the load.

round-robin dns has no failover ability. Grab the rev-proxy patch and set
all of the backend servers as cache_peers.

        -- Brian

On Monday 05 August 2002 11:38 am, you wrote:
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> Madhav Diwan
> FrontGate Systems
> Blackberry
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> From: Madhav Diwan <mdiwan@wagweb.com>
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> <squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org>; Madhav Diwan <mdiwan@wagweb.com>
> Sent: Mon Aug 05 11:38:34 2002
> Subject: Dns queries to to backend servers
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> If I have a squid proxy running in transparent http accelarator mode and
> serving a backend webserver using its FQDN in the squid.conf file
> instead of its ip address, will I make a dns request to find the address
> everytime I make a new connection from the squid box? Or will the fact
> that I have established tcp connections to that name preculde any new
> dns inquiries?
>
> This question is pertanent to my situation because I want to round robin
> my backend servers in my internal dns server so that I can load balance
> the requets that come from my squid servers across several webserver
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> Madhav Diwan
> FrontGate Systems
> Blackberry
Received on Mon Aug 05 2002 - 10:24:15 MDT