Re: Site access problem.

John Deschamps wrote:
>
> I suscribe to a fee based technical support forum, which is having
> problems with their name servers that their hosting company provides.
> Their suggested temporary fix for now was to enter their site in the
> hosts file of the windows client pc. This works fine as long as I
> bypass the squid proxy cache. If I attempt to use the cache, I get
> the following error:
...
> I edited the hosts file on my squid box to include the affected site, but this has not helped.

Normally Squid does not use /etc/hosts, only DNS. To use /etc/hosts you
must typically build Squid with the --disable-internal-dns option.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker