Squid Performance - Default Options Tweak?

[Kh Linux]

Thank you Livhu. I'm now trying as you and Paul suggested. I'll come back to
you again. We have a bunch of about 100 users here.

Regards,
Vidol

----- Original Message -----
From: "Livhuwani Tshisikule" <livhu.tshisikule at telkomsa.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: Squid Performance - Default Options Tweak?


> On Friday 29 October 2004 13:36, Kh Linux wrote:
> > Thank you again Paul.
> >
> > > Why are you forwarding DNS queries to your ISP's nameservers rather
than
> > > having your bind look them up itself? I find that running my own
> >
> > nameserver
> >
> > > works much better than forwarding all queries to my ISP.
> >
> > That is a very good question. I thought, my ISP server would handle
queries
> > better and more up to date in terms of root name servers information.
> > Maybe, I was wrong.
> > Well, i'll take your suggestion now to switch to my own DNS server. But
one
> > more thing, is there a major bug in the BIND version that comes with
RedHat
> > 9?
> > I noticed that, we cannot stop it with 'service named stop'; I had to do
> > 'killall named'.
> >
> > Thank you very much. How about Squid? Any suggestions on its default
> > options tweak?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vidol
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
>
> I had the same problem, I configured one machine as a cache nameserver,
and
> the other machines uses it as the nameserver. Internet surfing is fast
now. I
> found out that resolving names using ISP DNS takes a long time and that it
> times out a lot and squid was not the problem. Try to use tcpdump to see
what
> is happening.
>
> Rehards
> Livhu
>
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