Re: [squid-users] Help going to hostname sans domain

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Patrick Campbell wrote:

> I'm trying to go a hostname without a domain through my Squid proxy. i.e.
>
> http://test instead of http://test.mydomain.com
>
> In my Windows, I have mydomain.com as a the "search" domain, although using
> my Squid proxy this shouldn't affect anything:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\pcampbell>ping test
> Pinging test.mydomain.com [10.1.69.90] with 32 bytes of data:
>
> In /etc/squid/squid.conf I have:
> dns_nameservers 10.100.1.98
>
> If I do an nslookup for test, I get:
> Server: 10.100.1.98
> Address: 10.100.1.98#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name: test.mydomain.com
> Address: 10.1.69.90
>
> However finally, when I go to enter it in Mozilla,I get:
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL: http://test/
>
> The following error was encountered:
>
> Unable to determine IP address from host name for test
>
> The dnsserver returned:
>
> Name Error: The domain name does not exist.
>
> This must be something really obvious that I am overlooking. Thanks in
> advance!

Also, Perhaps this is a deeper problem: In Mozilla I have "No Proxy for:"
and '.mydomain.com' is listed there as per their example which suggests
that all of *.mydomain.com will not be proxied. But it is obviously being
proxied.

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Patrick Campbell