[plug] DNS (Was: I think I broke it ...)

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Niall Young wrote:
> But squid is so nice :-)  All of your ip_masq'd boxes could be pulling
> down cached images from your gateway instead of the net.  Much faster
> transfer rates, and you save quite a bit of bandwidth.  All of your
> machines will still pretend to be on the net, they'll just get common
> http traffic much quicker.
Of course, this only works to full advantage if you tell your squid to
use your ISP's proxy as a parent. Otherwise you're just replacing a nice
big proxy at the other end of the modem with a (comparitively) tiny one at
your end. Naturally, you will want the best of both worlds.

-Greg Mildenhall