[squid-users] Reverse DNS lookups from squid logging port

[Amos Jeffries]

On 25/01/22 17:38, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On 1/24/22 7:24 PM, Praveen Ponakanti wrote:
>> The proposed solution seems to be to change the following lines and
>> recompile. If this is still the recommended fix, can it be upstreamed in
>> an upcoming release?
>>
>> https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/blob/master/src/cf.data.pre#L6042
>> https://github.com/squid-cache/squid/blob/master/src/cf.data.pre#L6136
> 
> The above change of squid.conf defaults will probably work for you, but
> it will also break some deployments affected by this bug because the
> current code implicitly relies on those defaults triggering lookups.
> Thus, it is probably not the right solution for upstreaming. The PR
> mentioned below discusses specifics (see item #1 in the PR description).
> 

Alex: FWIW; the above breakage is the same reason for my remaining 
objection to PR #912.


Amos