Re: [squid-users] Squid as DNS-only cache

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

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