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# squid
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Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for Web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects.
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Unlike traditional caching software, Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process.
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Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests.
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Squid consists of a main server program squid, a Domain Name System lookup program (dnsserver), a program for retrieving FTP data (ftpget), and some management and client tools.
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