RE: [squid-users] DNS problem?

I have used telnet as you suggested and can get a response from the web
server.

my question is how to make the "information available to the DNS used by
Squid"?
is there something that i overlooked during the build or ? web server
address is already in the /etc/hosts file.

meanwhile i will the rebuild with --disable-internal-dns options.

thanks for all your help.
mikeg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:50 AM
> To: mjg@RxAmerica.com
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] DNS problem?
>
>
> mjg@RxAmerica.com wrote:
>
> > I have asked the firewall guys if there is a rule for
> allowing access
> > from the squid server to/from the web server and they say yes.
>
> Then I'd suggest you verify that what they claim is true..
>
> From the Squid proxy machine, try to access your web server using any
> HTTP client. I'd recommend Lynx, but the Squid client program can also
> be used by specifying your web server as the host to connect
> to or even
> plain old telnet.
>
>
> telnet your.company.webserver 80
> GET / HTTP/1.0
> [blank line]
>
> > so thought I might try using the always_direct acl. -- am I on the
> > right track or should I disable the internal dns for squid?
>
> always_direct is useful if you have parent proxies configured by
> cache_peer. From what I can see I don't think using always_direct will
> help you. However, it might help you in a future scenario where you
> connect to other parent proxies such as a proxy at your ISP.
>
> > using the nameservers 12.127.17.71, 12.127.16.67 which
> > are for our web site -- if do nslookup from squid machine can find
> > www.rxamerica.com ip address.
> >
> > there is a dns server setup in the intranet for the domain but it
> > doesn't have the web servers in it(problem?).
>
> The DNS squid is using must naturally know about the servers
> you want to
> connect to, or else it won't be able to find those servers by name.
>
> If making the information available in the DNS used by Squid is not an
> option, then add it to /etc/hosts and rebuild squid with
> --disable-internal-dns.
>
> Regards
> Henrik Nordström
> Squid Hacker
>
Received on Wed Oct 03 2001 - 05:41:18 MDT