Re: [squid-users] Newbie - Resolve hostname to private IP

Hello!

You might try adding the entries to your hosts file on the server...

should be /etc/hosts

I believe that squid will use the system settings with regards to name
resolution, unless told to use specific name servers in the config file.

When you run your clients through the squid cache, name resolution
occurs on the server not on the client.

I would try a single entry in the hosts file first, to make sure that it
works for you. The hosts file should already contain some examples to
get you going.

Let me know if you need any help.

Thanks and Best,

Waitman Gobble
EMK Design
Buena Park, California
+1.7145222528
http://emkdesign.com

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:41, Mark Unwin wrote:
    Have just installed Mandrake 9, including Squid. Squid clients can browse
    the web, but can't get to our private (behind our firewall - Non DNS) web
    server.
    
    Thought it might have been as simple as putting the IP + Hostname in
    /etc/hosts, but this doesn't seem to have made any difference.
    
    I CAN browse to the internal web server from the KDE machine. I can ping it
    too (using the hostname). Just can't get to it from the other clients using
    Squid. I can get to this server using it's IP.
    
    Client is using Win2k Pro, IE6. If I tick the 'Bypass proxy server for local
    addresses' it works. Can I get around this (without ticking this option) ?
    
    Error follows -
    
    While trying to retrieve the URL: http://boris/default.asp
    
    The following error was encountered:
    
    Unable to determine IP address from host name for boris
    The dnsserver returned:
    
    Name Error: The domain name does not exist.
    This means that:
    
    The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
    Check if the address is correct.
    
    Thanks
    Mark...
    
    
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Received on Tue Nov 05 2002 - 18:22:53 MST