Re: [squid-users] Squid, Symantec LiveUpdate, and HTTP 1.1 versus HTTP 1.0

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:29:57 +1300

Wong wrote:
>>> I found that Symantec LU has round robin DNS. And they can change DNS A
>>> record at anytime.
>>>
>>> Isn't it better if Squid can bypass the domain name in squid.conf?
>>> Is it possible?
>>
>> Squid does many DNS things and has many controls for changing how it
>> does them.
>>
>> Correct use of DNS in stateless HTTP should not be causing any issue
>> at all.
>>
>> Is the RR-DNS causing you problems? if so what?
>
> All,
>
> Refering to old topic "dstdomain acl and fqdn". Seems Squid also unable
> exclude DST FQDN.
>
> ===snip==
>
>> Say, I have a domain example.com and users access intranet web server
>> in this domain as: http://www/index.html. www's fqdn is
>> www.example.com and squid is able to resolve 'www' based on search
>> path specified in /etc/resolv.conf.
>
>> Is there anyway to make squid use FQDNs in dstdomain acls? or, any
>> other way to resolve this problem?
>
>
> Unfortunately not when using dns_defnames, only when using
> append_domain.
>
>
> Regards
> Henrik
> ===snip===
>
> Is it any update for those issue?
>

As Henrik said use "append_domain" to append the local domain name to
user requests and form an FQDN for them.

Amos

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Received on Fri Mar 27 2009 - 08:30:04 MDT

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