Re: [squid-users] Accessing external web server

From: Aidan Gregory <Aidan.Gregory@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:56:48 +0100

>>> Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> 18/07/2003 19:26:03 >>>
> On Friday 18 July 2003 6:38 pm, Aidan Gregory wrote:

>> We have a very simple test setup:
>>
>> 1 box (Sun running Solaris 8) running Squid
>> 1 box (Sun running Solaris 8) running DNS
>>
>> Inside the firewall the domain name is mydomain.com. Outside the
>> firewall we also have a web server: www.mydomain.com . Users can
browse
>> the external web server from inside the firewall if Squid is not
used as
>> the proxy, but as soon as the proxy is enabled in the browser, any
>> attempt to access the external server results in a DNS error (Unable
to
>> determine IP address from host name for www.mydomain.com ).
>>
>> Any suggestions where I might be going wrong ?
>
> I assume, because you mention your DNS server, that both your clients
(which
> can access the website) and the squid proxy (which cannot) are
pointing to
> this for their primary name resolution. Is this assumption
correct?
>
 
Yes.

> Does your DNS server run 'split DNS', providing different answers
depending
> on the IP address of the questioner? If so, do your clients and
your proxy
> fall into different ranges as far as the DNS server is concerned?
>
 
No, we don't run split DNS.

> Do you have any NAT involved here?
>
 
Yes, the firewall operates NAT.

> Just one final question: can the squid machine proxy correctly for
other
> websites - ie is the problem just associated with your own web
server?
>
 
The squid machines proxies fine for all other websites - it's just our
web server
outside the firewall that we have the problem with.

> Regards,
>
> Antony.
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Aidan

 
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