Re: [squid-users] bypassing the proxy for local atomic hostnames

See append_domain and always_direct directives.

Regard
Henrik

Rolf wrote:
>
> hello
>
> I'm having trouble with configuring squid (2.5stable1) to handle internal,
> 'intranet' addresses which are not fully qualified.
>
> Squid currently is setup to do proxy_auth with active directory group
> membership as an additional requirement. This is all working fine.
>
> When I start the browser it is configured to go to an address of the form
> http://info/ or http://intranet/dev or similar.
>
> Initially it failed with a dns unresolvable error generated bby the
> upstream (ISP) proxy. Not at all surprising as that cache has no knowledge
> of our internal dns, where 'info' as a hostname is resolvable.
>
> So I tried adjusting the cache config to not let such urls go upstream. In
> fact I'd just like them to go direct. But this didn't work:
>
> acl info url_regex ^http://info/.*
> always_direct allow info
>
> I then tried cache_peer_domain with a !info parameter but then I got an
> error saying 'unable to forward request at this time', so I don't think
> that's it.
>
> What do I have to set such that unqualified hostnames (and urls that are
> qualified with our own domain) in urls are sent straight from the proxy to
> the host specified (a webserver on the same LAN as the proxy)?
>
> Is is related that when the browser starts it asks for authentication (a la
> proxy_auth as above) and once done, ignores the always_direct directive?
>
> Many thanks
>
> rolf.
Received on Thu Apr 03 2003 - 01:49:45 MST