Re: starting squid with no dns

From: John Cougar <cougar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:01:53 +1000 (EST)

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, chris wrote:

>
> Hi,
> i have squid 1.1.15 on my netwqork at home, all works ok as long
> as I start it up after I have made conenction to the internet , if not I
> get the following err
>
> FATIAL: ipcache_init DNS name lookup test failed
>
>
> is there a way I can get around this ?

Look deeeeep into your squid.conf file and find the line that says
"dns_testnames" and set it to something more appropriate, like the local
DNS server for your LAN (you DO have one set up, don't you??).

Alternatively, use -D on your squid command line to disable the DNS test
altogether.

J.

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