Re: [squid-users] Cannot keep squid activated !!!

From: Merton Campbell Crockett <mcc@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 10:02:14 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Pierre Pelletier wrote:

> Hello,
> When I activate squid, it returns this message error which I did not find in
> the FAQ:
>
> FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set
> 'visible_hostname'

Squid performs a DNS lookup on the IP address of the system on which it is
running. If a NXDOMAIN is returned, it will terminate unless you set the
"visible_hostname" to a valid fully-qualified domain name.

> Even looking at litterature about the so called fully qualified name, I cannot
> figure out what to do. I don't have any domain name dot com registred !!!
> Would I use the hostname given by my pc ?

You might be able to set the 'visible_hostname' to "cegepat.qc.ca" to
allow squid to run.

Merton Campbell Crockett

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