Re: [squid-users] hierarchy problerms

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:06:45 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Swaroop Shere wrote:

> But still it did not work. Then i edited the
> /etc/hosts file, and entered ip addresses for
> google.com, and google.co.in. After this i started
> squid and and typed www.google.com on a browser, it
> worked. So, maybe squid does require a dns server for
> reslving its acl [to_localhost]. That's what I found
> when I increased the debug level to 3 and saw that
> www.google.com was being compared to [to_localhost],
> BEFORE i edited the /etc/hosts file.

If you have ACLs touching destination hostnames or IP addresses then your
Squid will require DNS.

This is also why the to_localhost rule is disabled by default.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sat Aug 21 2004 - 09:06:47 MDT

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