Re: [squid-users] Squid, Symantec LiveUpdate, and HTTP 1.1 versus HTTP 1.0

> Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> Wong wrote:
>>>>> I found that Symantec LU has round robin DNS. And they can change DNS
>>>>> A
>>>>> record at anytime.
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't it better if Squid can bypass the domain name in squid.conf?
>>>>> Is it possible?
>>>>
>>>> Squid does many DNS things and has many controls for changing how it
>>>> does them.
>>>>
>>>> Correct use of DNS in stateless HTTP should not be causing any issue at
>>>> all.
>>>>
>>>> Is the RR-DNS causing you problems? if so what?
>>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Refering to old topic "dstdomain acl and fqdn". Seems Squid also unable
>>> exclude DST FQDN.
>>>
>>> ===snip==
>>>
>>>> Say, I have a domain example.com and users access intranet web server
>>>> in this domain as: http://www/index.html. www's fqdn is www.example.com
>>>> and squid is able to resolve 'www' based on search path specified in
>>>> /etc/resolv.conf.
>>>
>>>> Is there anyway to make squid use FQDNs in dstdomain acls? or, any
>>>> other way to resolve this problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately not when using dns_defnames, only when using
>>> append_domain.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Henrik
>>> ===snip===
>>>
>>> Is it any update for those issue?
>>>
>>
>> As Henrik said use "append_domain" to append the local domain name to
>> user requests and form an FQDN for them.
>>
>> Amos
>
> PS, for those using 2.7 and 3.1 or later. Squid does handle the
> /etc/resolv.conf domain and search options properly to do this addition at
> DNS lookup time and make the above options largely irrelevant.

Yes, you're correct.

Thx & Rgds,

Awie
Received on Sat Mar 28 2009 - 03:29:22 MDT