[squid-users] Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes

[Baird, Josh]

> > Could anyone offer any suggestions or advice to help figure out what is
> causing these problems?
> 
> 1) upgrade.
> 
> 2) seriously, upgrade.
> 
> 3) try adding "via on" to your squid.conf. If you start to get warnings about
> forwarding loops its working. Otherwise you got big problems - see (2).

Could the 'Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minute' messages be attributed to spotty/slow DNS resolution, though?  When a proxy is in 'hit-only-mode,' is it able to respond to normal (non ICP) clients?

Josh