Re: [squid-users] Squid not responding

Hi Stephane,

stephane lepain wrote:
> On Saturday 10 November 2007 01:46:59 Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> stephane lepain wrote:
>>> On Friday 09 November 2007 15:20:04 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
>>>> Hi Stephane,
>>>>
>>>> stephane lepain wrote:
>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> Squid did not respond when I restarted my PC. I don't have any error
>>>>> message in /etc/squid/squid.out. It seems that squid is not even
>>>>> registering. Since I don't have an error message, I can't sort this
>>>>> out. I also tried a restart, stop and start but nothing would do.
>>>>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and then ./squid restart.
>>>>> Anyone has any thought on this?
>>>> Which OS and Squid version are you running? What do you have for the
>>>> following directive in your squid.conf:
>>>>
>>>> cache_log
>>>>
>>>> If you had tried to restart Squid from /etc/rc.d/init.d and if Squid
>>>> failed to load, then Squid will report errors in cache.log unless you
>>>> have configured Squid not to generate a cache.log file!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> By the way, just in case, check your hard drive disk space usage.
>>>>
>>>> If nothing helps, check where the Squid binary is located from your
>>>> startup script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid.
>>>>
>>>> Go to the directory where the Squid binary is residing and run:
>>>>
>>>> ./squid -NCd1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You will see the errors why your Squid is not starting or not responding
>>>> in the 1st place.
>>>>
>>>> Thanking you ...
>>>>
>>>>> Cheers to all of you
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I now have got an error message saying "could not determine fully
>>> qualified host name. set visible host name" . I cant seem to get around
>>> this. I would appreciate a hand.
>>>
>>> Cheers to all
>> Publicly visible host needs a FQDN assigned and rDNS configured. All the
>> networking software on your host will be having problems with this.
>>
>> Assuming you are on a unice;
>> /etc/hostname should contains a FQDN
>>
>> OR in the rare event that you CANT do that;
>>
>> it must contain a valid host name (ie 'proxy') and /etc/resolv.conf
>> must contain a domain entry that combines to form a FQDN <host>.<domain>
>> with rDNS that resolves to an IP asigned to that machine.
>>
>>
>> As a hack-around just for squid there is the visible_hostname directive,
>> although this will go nowhere to fixing the DNS/rDNS problems at the
>> cause of the message.
>>
>> Amos
>
> Though that is kind of weird because I didn't have that problem before. I have
> switched all my server from Mandriva to Ubuntu Server version. I think that
> could be the problem!! I am now using SQUID 2.6 stable 14 as well. Should I
> run the latest version?
>

I think it's the Squid version which was causing the problem rather than
the Linux distribution.

Running the latest current version always helps in terms of security
patches, minor improvements and debugging.

Thanking you...

-- 
With best regards and good wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Tek Bahadur Limbu
System Administrator
(TAG/TDG Group)
Jwl Systems Department
Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Jawalakhel, Nepal
http://www.wlink.com.np
http://teklimbu.wordpress.com