<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hey Amos,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 1;" class="">What is causing the problem is that ICAP services need to be working</span></div><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: normal; widows: 1;" class="">>*immediately* and do not wait for DNS results to come back. If they are
>not available immediately then the service is not contactable for that
>transaction.
>Adding /etc/hosts entries makes Squid load the name+IP details on
>startup before ICAP is used. So the problem does not appear.
</pre><div class="">Is there a configuration for squid where we can ask it to perform DNS lookup immediately rather than doing later when it sends an OPTIONS request again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks</div><div class="">Aashima</div></body></html>