[ILUG] Squid and Firewall

[Wynne, Conor]

Hi Declan, 

Now I'm still drunk from last night, however I shall try and answer
this. 

Every page has a "time to live" in the page thingy. A page with dynamic
text/pictures will always be checked on the internet in case it changes.
Static pages are cool coz they don't change. 

You should definitely use a caching name server, coz all the cool kids
have em.
Nice 1 Paul for the script. 

CW

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Thanks Paul.

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.
i.e. I use google a lot, and have it set as my default page in ie5.
When I start ie5, and watch the log, it dials up straight away, even
though
I was just on google a few mins ago.

Is it dns thats causing the dialup ?
Should I do a local caching nameserver to solve this prob ?