[squid-users] Newbie - Resolve hostname to private IP

Have just installed Mandrake 9, including Squid. Squid clients can browse
the web, but can't get to our private (behind our firewall - Non DNS) web
server.

Thought it might have been as simple as putting the IP + Hostname in
/etc/hosts, but this doesn't seem to have made any difference.

I CAN browse to the internal web server from the KDE machine. I can ping it
too (using the hostname). Just can't get to it from the other clients using
Squid. I can get to this server using it's IP.

Client is using Win2k Pro, IE6. If I tick the 'Bypass proxy server for local
addresses' it works. Can I get around this (without ticking this option) ?

Error follows -

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://boris/default.asp

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for boris
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.

Thanks
Mark...

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Received on Tue Nov 05 2002 - 17:42:12 MST