Re: [squid-users] Accessing external web server

>Aidan wrote:
>> 1 box (Sun running Solaris 8) running Squid
>> 1 box (Sun running Solaris 8) running DNS
>
>Do the clients (users) use a different DNS server or the same Solaris
8
>DNS
>server? What is the result of an nslookup www.mydomain.com when
>done on the
>Squid box and if it is wrong, is it also wrong on the Solaris 8 DNS
server?
>If so, just add the correct A record/IP to that DNS server.
>

All clients use the same DNS server (Sun box running Solaris 8). An
nslookup
of www.mydomain.com from the squid box works just fine (i.e. as
expected).

>One other untested thought might be to hardcode the correct IP/name
>pair in
>the /etc/hosts file. According to the notes next to the Squid conf
file's
>hosts_file TAG, it is read at startup and upon configuration so you'll
have
>to do one or the other.

Thanks for the suggestion - I'll give it a go.

>
>hth
>
>Adam

Thanks for your help,

Aidan
Received on Mon Jul 21 2003 - 02:03:23 MDT