Re: http://ip.address.not.hostname/

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Joe Ramey wrote:

: Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:00:01 -0500
: From: Joe Ramey <ramey@csc.ti.com>
: To: fritchie@MR.Net
: Cc: squid-users@nlanr.net
: Subject: Re: http://ip.address.not.hostname/
:
: Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:08:02 -0500
: From: Scott Lystig Fritchie <fritchie@MR.Net>
:
: Using Squid 1.1alpha11, I try to retrieve a file via
: http://137.192.245.217/ and I get a "DNS Domain '137.192.245.217' is
: invalid: Host not found (authoritative)" error from Squid. A search
: through the Squid config file doesn't seem to mention anything about
: that. Did I miss something? ... Harvest cached 1.4pl3's behaves
: well, though. {shrug}
:
: I found that this occurs when there is no PTR record in the DNS for
: the given IP address. There is code in dnsserver.c that tries to look
: up the PTR record. To disable this behavior you can recompile with
: -DNO_REVERSE_LOOKUP.

I had this problem too, but since squid-1.1.alpha12 it is solved (thanks,
Duane :-)

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