[ILUG] Squid and Firewall

[Paul Kelly]

Declan Grady wrote:

> Another Q ... When I use a windows client to my squid proxy, squid seems to
> dial up, even though it has the requested page(s) in the cache.

> Is it dns thats causing the dialup ?


Either that or Squid requesting verification of the page. Check with 
ethereal or tcpdump.

> Should I do a local caching nameserver to solve this prob ?


A caching named would be a Cunning Plan indeed.

Paul.