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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : nickm@ior.org.au
  Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:35:57 +0930 (CST)

Re: Banner adverts cont.

Nick Morrison wrote:

 > I've made these changes, and squid still manages to find places like
 > www.microsoft.com that I've added as 127.0.0.1 in my /etc/hosts file.  Does
 > squid cache DNS searches?  I've restarted squid, in this hope..  but no
 > avail.

Squid uses those funky "dnsserver" processes to do DNS resolution, and
ignores /etc/host.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf.  It'll *always* use DNS.

   - mark

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