Squid-novm not starting (Linux 5.2)

I had configured squid.novm (Version 1.1.22) on my Linux 5.2 server.
Everything WAS working fine... On Dec 15 squid quit working??? After much
investigation I have found the following:

DNS server queries work. (i.e. nslookup works fine)
dnsserver queries work (i.e. echo oceana.nlanr.net | /usr/bin/dnsserver
yields correct results)
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* cache.log outputs following:

1999/12/31 11:41:27| Starting Squid Cache version 1.NOVM.22 for
i686-pc-linux-gn
u...
1999/12/31 11:41:27| With 256 file descriptors available
1999/12/31 11:41:27| Performing DNS Tests...
1999/12/31 11:41:27| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
1999/12/31 11:41:27| dnsOpenServers: WARNING: Failed to start 'dnsserver'
#1.
1999/12/31 11:41:27| dnsOpenServers: WARNING: Failed to start 'dnsserver'
#2.
1999/12/31 11:41:27| dnsOpenServers: WARNING: Failed to start 'dnsserver'
#3.
1999/12/31 11:41:27| dnsOpenServers: WARNING: Failed to start 'dnsserver'
#4.
1999/12/31 11:41:27| dnsOpenServers: WARNING: Failed to start 'dnsserver'
#5.
FATAL: Failed to start any dnsservers
Squid Cache (Version 1.NOVM.22): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: user 0 sys 0
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 202
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* permissions on /usr/bin/dnsserver shows:

[root@vmisrv1 bin]# ls -l dnsserver
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6376 Oct 11 1998 dnsserver
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* check of process status after failing shows:

[root@vmisrv1 bin]# ps aux | grep squid.novm
nobody 25826 0.0 2.0 2152 944 p1 S 11:41 0:00 squid.novm
nobody 25831 0.0 2.0 2152 952 p1 S 11:44 0:00 squid.novm
nobody 25832 0.0 2.0 2152 952 p1 S 11:47 0:00 squid.novm
nobody 26048 0.0 2.0 2152 952 p1 S 11:50 0:00 squid.novm
nobody 26049 0.0 2.0 2152 952 p1 S 11:54 0:00 squid.novm
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Now I've tried everything I know. However, something is strange to me in
that I cannot ping my localhost ,eth0, or eth1 ip addresses??? I can ping
everyone else in the world including my router!

The ping on localhost just sits there (forever).
The ping on eth0 and eth1 keep telling me "Network is unreachable"

I must have altered a setting that didn't expose itself until a system
reboot.

Can anyone give me some leads on where to go from here? Like I said, it was
working???

Thanks in advance.

Pete Iannacchione
Received on Fri Dec 31 1999 - 11:00:51 MST