Re: [squid-users] squid does not look at /etc/hosts file

On Thursday 11 July 2002 18.12, Zand, Nooshin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running squid2.4STABLE4 on BSD4.1. irs.config has been
> configured to look at local hosts first and then dns.
> It seems squid ignore what has been defined on irs.conf and
> /etc/hosts.
>
> Any idea why?

Yes. Squid-2.4 does not look in /etc/hosts by default. It only uses
DNS.

To use /etc/hosts your can either

 a) Recompile Squid-2.4 with the --disable-internal-dns option. Beware
that this makes your Squid more sensitive to DNS outages, and can
cause DNS lookups to be a noticeable bottleneck for larger
installations..

 b) Upgrade to Squid-2.5 (currently in late beta)

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Jul 11 2002 - 12:29:16 MDT