On Thursday 11 July 2002 16.46, Edward Chase wrote:
> When using Squid 2.4 stable 1 and IE6, I'm seeing the following...
>
> If I surf to http://www/, squid is not being used. This is the
> desired action for local hosts. When surfing to
> http://www.providence.edu/, squid is being used.
>
> I'm not understanding why...
Because your browser do not know www.providence.au is a local site.
See your browsers proxy settings (you may need to go into advanced
proxy settings).
> I'm also starting to question why I'm trying not to cache local
> hosts... This should be considered a good thing as it will reduce
> the load on those machines as well....
Usually the load of your local machines is not a problem. Most people
prefer if local users go directly to local machines without using any
proxy..
> One other thing... My firewall has a web interface. I had not
> made a DNS entry for this IP address. I attempted to setup rules
> so that this IP address would accessed directly. (My machine is
> allowed to talk to the firewall, the squid server It did not work
> when I surfed to it by it's IP address. I created a DNS entry for
> this address and I can now surf directly to it. Can it be done
> without the DNS entry?
Should not be relevant. But your first question may be relevant
here...
Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Jul 11 2002 - 12:29:21 MDT
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