Re: [squid-users] Squid Configuration

dear Henrik,

get connected to the net by whaterevr menans you are using then try
pinging first asd it seems that your machine is not able to resolve the
name!! i.e. try "ping www.google.com" and then check your routing table

it should show you the gateway!! as i had when i connect through modem

[root@bimalserver bimal]# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
202.54.96.182 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
193.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 202.54.96.182 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0

hope this will help.

bimal

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 03:37, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Guillermo Javier Nardoni wrote:
>
> > Hello, I have just installed Linux Red Hat 9 on an intel microprocessor
> > (Pentium Celeron 300 Mhz , 256 Mb of RAM and 60 Gb UATA IDE DISK) and i
> > have a network with 10 pcs connected I turn squid on and it works fine
> > but when i make a simple ping from any computer connected to the linux
> > server ( for example ping www.google.com.ar, it gives me host unknown).
>
> This has nothing to do with Squid.
>
> Squid is a HTTP proxy which means you can configure clients to use it as
> proxy to reach the Internet from a private network. This private network
> does not need to have any other connectivity with the internet what so
> ever, just the proxy server.
>
> Squid is not a firewall, and will not allow generic networking protocols.
> It is only a HTTP proxy meant to be used by web browsers for reaching the
> Internet.
>
>
> If you want your private network to have full Internet access then look
> into NAT / Masquerading techniques. This allows full uni-directional
> packet level Internet access and is a basic firewalling function. Linux
> has a very powerful firewall built in capable of doing all these things
> and a whole lot more. And there is no problem combining firewalling,
> NAT/Masquerading and Squid HTTP proxy/caching.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Mon Aug 23 2004 - 00:34:35 MDT