[squid-users] Squid and DNS

[Amos Jeffries]

On 6/09/18 7:22 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 06.09.18 02:40, Julian Perconti wrote:
> 
>> Is mandatory for squid to use only 1 dns/caching nameserver?
> 
> usually, people have multiple DNS servers configured to fail over in case
> one of them fails.
> in some cases, client can balance the load, or prefer server with faster
> responses.
> 
> There should be no problem of this kind, unless one of your DNS servers is
> broken.
> 

If it wasn't clear already, yes Squid can use multiple resolvers BUT
they need to be recursive resolvers and every one of them needs to be
able to resolve *all* possible domains Squid will ask about.

You cannot have one of them being authoritative for local domain names
and another for public queries. DNS don't work like that.

Amos