[squid-users] Re: Re: Squid-Newbie question

From: Adam Aube <aaube01@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:55:14 -0400

Steve King wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 02:20, Adam Aube wrote:
>> Steve King wrote:

>>> Sometimes my PC gets turned on without the cable modem being turned on.
>>> Without Squid, I can turn the modem on, wait a couple of seconds, and
>>> everything is fine. But with Squid I get a message that the site I am
>>> looking for cannot be accessed.

>> You should be able to just refresh the page once the cable modem finishes
>> initializing. If not, try adjusting your dns_negative_ttl to a lower
>> value.

> Thanks for the info, Adam. It didn't do the trick, sadly.

> I have done some experiments:
> - If I turn the modem off after I have booted up, then eventually the
> browser says that the site cannot be found. This does not seem to be a
> squid msg. - If I then turn the modem on and wait a few moments before
> clicking refresh, then sure enough the site comes up, as you'd expect.

> But if the modem is turned off when the machine is booting, then turning
> the modem on does not help. I have to restart squid.

Have you tried editing your init.d script to run Squid with the -D option
(disables DNS checks)? Also, are there any error messages in cache.log?

Adam
Received on Thu Sep 23 2004 - 17:55:08 MDT

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