Squid is a efficient proxy cache server software on linux, besides working as a proxy cache which supports HTTP FTP gopher WAIS communication protocol, it can be used as the DNS cache to quicken the transform between network address and its IP address.

• Squid是Linux下一个高性能的代理缓存服务器软件,除了支持HTTP、FTP、gopher、WAIS通讯协议的代理高速缓存之外,本身还做网域名称的高速缓存用以加快网址及其IP地址的转换。