Re: [squid-users] hosts-file understanding

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 04:31, Pat Lendon wrote:

> Why was the hosts_file option added to squid?

It was an oft requested feature from users that didn't have or want
private DNS servers.

> Why did I need to set "hosts_file none" to get above working?

At a guess (because I don't know what was in your hosts file): You have
an entry for proxyserver, with a value of 127.0.0.1. Essentially, your
browsers then tried to access http://127.0.0.1/somefile

> Should I be using hosts_file /etc/hosts?

it's completely up to you. If you want to use it, make sure that any
servers you want accessible are referenced by routable ip address's.

Cheers,
Rob

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