Re: [squid-users] trouble with www address not resolving

>* Site-specific to allow access to all the working v6-only sites (1% of the Internet now).

I am a little foggy on the details of how this is done. Could you
explain the steps I need to take.

Thanks

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> On 03/06/2011 19:24, William Bakken wrote:
>>
>>> Amos, is there a way to tell Squid to stop asking for AAAA records/IPv6?
>>> We are having problems with other sites not working in the same way.
>>>
> On 04/06/11 16:37, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
>>
>> The answer is to disable IPV6 on squid and on the linux machine and
>> software.
>>
>> but we do not know that this is the case..
>
> Correct. If you have IPv6 _properly_ disabled in the OS. Such that
> applications attempting to open IPv6 sockets for use get denied. Squid
> 3.1.10+ will pick that up next restart and not try to perform IPv6 again
> until next restart.
>
> There is the small matter of a lot of garbage tutorials about how to disable
> IPv6 in the OS though. It has to be done in a way where a program opening a
> IPv6 socket gets an error message back.
>  Not letting the app open and use the socket, (spewing errors out all over
> the place) or to hanging (frowning mostly at some RHEL user blogs there).
>
>
> Re-building Squid with --disable-ipv6 is another more extreme option.
>
>>
>> do you have a local DNS server on the machine for caching and forwarding?
>>
>> you can setup on the squid to use the local dns server and on the dns
>> server setup specific forwarding zone for this domain NS
>>
>> this will result a much more efficient way to get it done and to make
>> your system more reliable by any case.
>
> I recommend this way.
>  * Site-specific to allow access to all the working v6-only sites (1% of the
> Internet now).
>  * Easily reversible once the site starts working.
>
>
> Best best way is to get the site fixed ASAP. From the other post by Rick
> from Carfax it looks like they are on the issue now.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.12
>  Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.8 and 3.1.12.2
>
Received on Mon Jun 06 2011 - 15:54:55 MDT