Re: [squid-users] Transparent squid ignores client-side /etc/hosts

On tis, 2007-11-13 at 20:09 +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> I thought about that - do the DNS lookup, see if the IP the client is connecting
> to is in the returned DNS set Squid would try to connect to, and cache the content
> if it is.
>
> It only works if the site returns multiple A records for the URI host; it
> won't work for sites which do GSLB type tricks to reply with different IPs
> based on "stuff" (load balancing, geographic/topological distribution, etc.)

Also it requires a DNS Lookup before consulting the cache.

Regards
Henrik