[squid-users] Transparent proxy and Windows hosts file issue

This may seem stupid, How can we configure squid to allow employees to modify their own hosts file in windows to work? Currently if someone has a host file entry that points to a non-existent domain, they can ping it from their workstations fine, but when they browse they get the squid error page. Is there a way to tell squid to allow this kind of request or will I need to build up a hosts file on the transparent proxy itself.

The following error was encountered:
Unable to determine IP address from host name for whatever.whatever.com
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.

Regards,
Nick
Received on Wed Mar 11 2009 - 14:56:03 MDT