[squid-users] Multiple DNS search suffixes

From: Hohmeister, Matt <hohmeisterm@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:17:52 -0500

I just installed Squid 2.6 Stable 9 on a Ubuntu Linux server. I have
found an interesting problem...

I'm the sysadmin for a high school, and we have multiple DNS search
suffixes. Running "ipconfig /all" on a Windows computer gives me:

DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : schools.dist.leon.k12.fl.us
                                    dist.leon.k12.fl.us
                                    leon.k12.fl.us
                                    k12.fl.us
                                    fl.us

All of these are needed, since we use a lot of short/internal URLs in
use, some of which are dotted, for example:

www -> www.leon.k12.fl.us
www.leon.leon -> www.leon.leon.k12.fl.us

Is there any way I can "tell" Squid or Ubuntu about these short/internal
URLs? I see that search_domain can have only one suffix...currently,
going to these short/internal URLs gives me this error page:

The requested URL could not be retrieved
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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www/

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for www
The dnsserver returned:

Name Error: The domain name does not exist.
This means that:

 The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
 Check if the address is correct.
Your cache administrator is webmaster.
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Generated Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:17:03 GMT by leon-cache
(squid/2.5.STABLE12)

Thanks!

Matt Hohmeister
Technology Coordinator
Leon High School
550 E. Tennessee St.
Tallahassee, FL 32308-4938
Phone: +1 (850) 488-1971, Ext. 2500
Fax: +1 (850) 922-5311
E-Mail: hohmeisterm@mail.leon.leon.k12.fl.us
Received on Mon Feb 26 2007 - 11:18:00 MST

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