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

Amos Jeffries wrote:
> 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

PS, for those using 2.7 and 3.1 or later. Squid does handle the
/etc/resolv.conf domain and search options properly to do this addition
at DNS lookup time and make the above options largely irrelevant.

Amos

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