Re: [squid-users] When worlds collide

pritam wrote:
> Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> Paul Bertain wrote:
>>> What I should have said was put an entry in /etc/hosts and then
>>> modify /etc/nsswitch.conf on the Squid box so that it sees that same
>>> host as valid.
>>
>> You could. Although by using the internal DNS resolver for just squid,
>> you only need to add the entry to /etc/hosts. Squid loads the hosts
>> file to prime its internal DNS resolver.
>>
>> That would be the easiest way to configure it yes. But it makes the
>> site available to all users of Squid. Not just the one client.
> Hi,
>
> I thing their is a tricky idea here. And I have tested with IE and
> Firefox as browser.
>
> User PC first checks /etc/hosts before DNS Server. In the browser
> setting use proxy with port 3128 ( link in non-transparent) and add the
> domain/host ( viz: .EXAMPLE.COM/SNEAKY.EXAMPLE.COM) in field of
> 'no-proxy for:'
>
> This works for my clients. May be in yours scenario too.......

Do you have a transparent/interception proxy there?
The whole concept of the interception proxy is that the clients already
going direct to the wbsite. I don't think it can work for a proxy like
Tuc says he is using.

Amos

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