On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:12:05 +0530, Saurabh Agarwal wrote: > NO. I verified that Squid runs even if DNS is bad. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bilal J.Mahdi > > Squid will not run if the dns is wrong, that mean the dns will not > resolved. > > Try to run the squid with command line and you will see. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Saurabh Agarwal > > Hi All > > What If the DNS server IP address configured on the linux machine is wrong? > Can Squid detect that the DNS configured is wrong? > > IS there some other way DNS IP address can be verified? > > Regards, > Saurabh
This depends on your Squid version. Squid-2.x and 3.0 required the -D command line option to suppress DNS being tested at startup. All current Squid will attempt to use the broken server but will end up using results from one of the active resolvers which respond faster. Amos
