Re: [squid-users] Transparent proxy and Windows hosts file issue

Hello,

On 11.03.09 10:55, Nick Duda wrote:

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> This may seem stupid, How can we configure squid to allow employees to
> modify their own hosts file in windows to work? Currently if someone has a
> host file entry that points to a non-existent domain, they can ping it
> from their workstations fine, but when they browse they get the squid
> error page. Is there a way to tell squid to allow this kind of request or
> will I need to build up a hosts file on the transparent proxy itself.

Squid _can not_ know what users have in their hosts files. Either you put
those hosts to DNS, to squid's hosts file, or you won't be able to use them.

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