[squid-users] Re: update! VISIBLE HOSTNAME

Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote:

> I get the following error when i want to start squid
> FATAL: could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set
> 'visible_hostname'

Then Squid could not find the full name of the server it is running on. Squid
finds this name by

   1. Starting with the host name, as reported by "uname -n".
   2. Asks your OS what the name and IP corresponding to the hostname is by
calling "gethostbyname()".

If this does not return a name with at least one dot in it then Squid will
complain.

  
> But what do I have to set there ? and why ?? it always worked with 2.4

Have you perhaps changed your /etc/hosts or anything similar?

> If I set something there, then I can start my squid but it stops
> automatically back after a few seconds.

And what error do you get? See cache.log.

Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Developer
Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 09:36:08 MST