[squid-users] Resolution query

Hi all

I've got a small problem that I'm hoping that someone can help with. Our
squids work just fine, doing what they do best. But!

We have a project to ease a little of our WAN traffic by putting a squid
connected to an ADSL at some outlying sites with poor WAN connections to
allow certain URLs direct access from the site via the ADSL. All other
requests will be forwarded to the parent proxies here at head office.

All of our clients use IE and currently are configured not to use a proxy
for local addresses but for routing purposes it would be beneficial to pass
all http traffic through the proxy. I've been doing some tests and I cannot
get sites like http://intranet (the default home page) to work. I just get
the "Unable to determine IP address from host name for intranet" page come
up.

The servers can resolve the address at OS level and the squid reports on
startup that it is using the two internal DNS servers resolv.conf. I added
the acl:

acl Internal dst 10.0.0.0/8
always_direct allow Internal

This didn't seem to help. From what I have read, using "dstdom" instead of
"dst" wouldn't work because there isn't a domain to put in...

If I add "append_domain salvesen.com" to the squid.conf then it works but
causes other issues which some users may find unacceptable. For example, if
I attempt to access webmail (Domino iNotes) at
http://mymailserver/mail/mymailfile.nsf, firstly I am prompted for my
username and password and then the URL gets rewritten as
http://mymailserver.salvesen.com/mail/mymailfile.nsf and am again prompted
to authenticate. Since many of our technophobe directors use webmail
extensively due to travelling a lot, we would probably get many complaints
about this from people who have loud voices...

Can anybody suggest a workaround to allow the squid to resolve domain-less
sites?

Thanks in anticipation,

Ian

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Received on Mon Feb 14 2005 - 03:36:50 MST