[squid-users] DNS probems?

Hi everyone... Been a long time since I posted here, but here I am. :)

I'm using squid 2.3Stable4 and am having seamingly random DNS issues. I
checked the 2.3 BUGS page, and the exact problem I am seeing seems to
have been reported and fixed back in 2.3stable2. I have tried both the
internal DNS and external DNS methods of address resolution for squid,
and this still happens. The sites seem to be random, and I can do an
nslookup at my dns server immediately following one of these errors and
the address does resolve. Also, simply turning OFF the proxy cache in
netscape/ie etc, the site can be reached. Re-enabling it gives the same
error. (I even lowered the negative-dns-ttl and negative-ttl options to
see if that would help) no change.

Here is the error page (I am sure you already know what this one looks
like)

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The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.hotmail.com/

The following error was encountered:
Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.hotmail.com

The dnsserver returned:
DNS Domain 'www.hotmail.com' is invalid: Valid name, no data record of
requested type.

This means that:

The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
  Check if the address is correct.

Your cache administrator is...

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Thanks for any help/ideas regarding this.

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Bill Arlofski
Unix Systems Administrator
860-435-3140
waa@hotchkiss.org
Received on Mon Mar 19 2001 - 15:45:15 MST