> I'm trying to get squid to work as a reverse proxy in front of a > single web server which runs domain virtualhosts: > > http_port in:80 vhost > cache_peer out parent 80 0 originserver > 'in' is my input address, 'out' is the address of of the web server. > > The problem that I have is that each requests takes a considerable > time to process (in which time squid is trying to resolve the Host: > hostname and since I dont have a dns on the squid box, resolve never > succeeds). Eventually the page is served, it just waits through some > timeout on every request. Adding my vhosts to /etc/hosts on the squid > box solves the issue. > > Can I have an accelerator for a single backend server with vhosts, > without the need to resolve the Host: header (or if not possible, how > to effectivly workaround it, adding all vhosts to /etc/hosts is not an > option)?
The recommended reverse-proxy accelerator setup does not require DNS in any form. http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Reverse/BasicAccelerator It is possible to direct "cache_peer_access blah allow all" to the web server if you only have one backend and all domains go to it. Just note that this removes any false-domain restrictions squid might otherwise provide, and only works with a single back-end. Amos
