Re: [squid-users] Squid and DNS

THanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <hno@marasystems.com>
To: "Fran Boudraux" <squidlist@hotmail.com>; "Aldo S. Lagana"
<alagana@discmail.com>; <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid and DNS

> See the append_domain directive in squid.conf.
>
> Regards
> Henrik Nordström
> Squid Developer
>
>
> On Thursday 14 February 2002 11.57, Fran Boudraux wrote:
> > MessageNope, it does have 'appned dns suffix' (be.com) in dns
> > properties and the same happens on thewin95-98 workstations (the
> > get be.com suffix from dhcp) ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Aldo S. Lagana
> > To: 'Fran Boudraux' ; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:58 PM
> > Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid and DNS
> >
> >
> > I'm not THE expert, but it looks as though your client is running
> > W2K, ME or XP and it is not in the be.com domain (in it's DNS tab
> > under TCP/IP properties it doesn't have be.com anywhere)
> >
> > What gives me the clue is that the FQDN seems to resolve, but for
> > one of those above OS's to assume a domain (the domain) seems to
> > have to be in the clients DNS setup under TCP/IP.
> >
> > aldo
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fran Boudraux [mailto:squidlist@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:43 PM
> > To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > Subject: [squid-users] Squid and DNS
> >
> >
> > Squid 2.4.stable.
> > I need some clarification regarding how squid works with local
> > dns server.Here is the setup: Squid configured to use the following
> > name resolvers: (cat /etc/resolv.conf) search be.com # search local
> > dns server first
> > nameserver 10.0.84.9 # local dns server
> > nameserver 207.181.102.5 # ISP dns sevrer
> > nameserver 207.181.102.6 # ISP secondary dns server
> >
> > All workstation set to use this proxy server, have 'Bypass
> > proxy for local addresses' enabled, and have only one dns server
> > setup in ip properties (10.0.84.9)
> >
> > What I don't undersand is the following:
> > Let's say local dns server holds be.com local domain name and
> > it has entry for ultra1which is: ultra1 IN A 10.0.84.3 #
> > running local intranet web server
> >
> > When I ping ultra1 from Sqiod box I get the reply from
> > 10.0.84.3 When I ping ultra1 from the dns server itself I get the
> > reply from 10.0.84.3 When I ping ultra1 from the workstation I get
> > the reply from 10.0.84.3 When I open the browser and type
> > http://ultra1 I can get to the site. Now I go to the IE browser and
> > go to the proxy settings and unmark Bypass proxy for local
> > addresses and I receive error message from proxy server that
> > address cannot be found in local cache.(If I type
> > http://ultra1.be.com I can access it) Questions:
> > 1. How come proxy server can resolve the address, dns server
> > can resolve the address, workstation can resolve the address, but
> > when I unmark Bypass proxy for local addresses it doesn't work? 2.
> > When browser is configured to use proxy then dns name resolution
> > request for the site isn't done on the workstation, but rather
> > proxy machine tries to resolve the name for the workstation, right?
> > If this is correct then why when I unmark Bypass proxy for local
> > addresses on browser it doesn't work?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
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Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 06:28:21 MST