Re: [squid-users] Squid 2.4 stable 7 DNS problem

Please test if the problem still exists in Squid-2.5. If it does then
open a bug entry describing the problem, possibly including "squid -k
debug" output of a such request.

Regards
Henrik

tis 2003-03-11 klockan 14.51 skrev Joe Kattner:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm experiencing a problem that I did not find searching through the
> archives or bugzilla, using version 2.4 stable 7. When an IP is used
> in a http(s) request, and the authoritative DNS server returns a
> SRVFAIL, squid does not process the request, even though an IP was
> asked for and that IP is up and serving http (or https).
>
> I see where the squid conf file notes that if using dstdomain which I
> am, it will attempt a reverse lookup. It seems odd that squid will
> process the request, if a non-existent domain (NXDOMAIN) is returned,
> but not SRVFAIL. Granted there is a significant difference between the
> two responses from a DNS perspective, but in either case squid gets no
> answer to the reverse lookup, yet squid will process one and not the other.
> Using always_direct does not resolve the issue.
>
> Has anyone seen this issue, and know a workaround other than
> complaining to the DNS admin to fix their broken arpa domain?
>
> Thank you,
>
> --Joe

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Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
MARA Systems AB, Sweden