Re: [squid-users] common squid hostnames & RFC 2219

Hi Craig,

Craig Skinner wrote:
> What are the most common host names that users on this list use for
> their squid boxes?
>
> I'm asking in light of RFC 2219 while cobbling up a fairly generic
> WPAD proxy.pac file.
>
>
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2219.html
>
> 3. Special cases
>
> Special Cases:
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Alias Service
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> archie archie [ARCHIE]
> finger Finger [RFC-1288]
> ftp File Transfer Protocol [RFC-959]
> gopher Internet Gopher Protocol [RFC-1436]
> ldap Lightweight Directory Access Protocol [RFC-1777]
> mail SMTP mail [RFC-821]
> news Usenet News via NNTP [RFC-977]
> ntp Network Time Protocol [RFC-1305]
> ph CCSO nameserver [PH]
> pop Post Office Protocol [RFC-1939]
> rwhois Referral WHOIS [RFC-1714]
> wais Wide Area Information Server [RFC-1625]
> whois NICNAME/WHOIS [RFC-954]
> www World-Wide Web HTTP [RFC-1945]
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> So do folk commonly use these host names for squid, or something else?:
>
> squid.example.org
> proxy.exam..
> webcache.
> cache.
> www-proxy.
> webproxy.
> gateway.

I will go with "proxy.exam.." option.

>
>
> What is the "prefered" host name for the service?

I will prefer "proxy.exam.." from my side.

Thanking you...

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