Re: squid can do that? and "performing dns test..."

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:58:55PM +0100, dukedavide@libero.it wrote:
...
> The topic is: I have a server connected to a CDN line and I would like
> that the connection could be used by all the windows client connected
> to the server (like wingate) the caching is not my primary purpose,
> my goal is to permit the client to use the cdn (and the caching but..)
> could Squid do that ?

No. You need to use other software for that.
  
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> Second: i run a temporanery ppp connection trought a modem and
> i would like to be accessible to the clients, if i run
> /usr/local/squid/bin/squid -NCd1 i get:
>
> 2000/03/07 17:56:45| Starting Squid Cache version 2.2.STABLE5 for
> i686-pc-linux-gnu...
> 2000/03/07 17:56:45| Process ID 20696
> 2000/03/07 17:56:45| With 1024 file descriptors available
> 2000/03/07 17:56:45| Performing DNS Tests...
>
> and he wait here.... i have set properly the /etc/resolv.conf (as
> mentioned in the faq) but it doesn't work, what can i do?

Check if you can resolve DNS from the command line at this point? If
the modem connection is down, then this will hang because DNS for the
sites it tries to test against can not be resolved.
  -- Clifton

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