Re: [squid-users] trouble with www address not resolving

From: William Bakken <williamdbakken_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:24:03 -0500

Amos, is there a way to tell Squid to stop asking for AAAA records/IPv6?
We are having problems with other sites not working in the same way.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 02/06/11 10:07, William Bakken wrote:
>>
>> The second log line on the last email shows that we are logging the
>> IP, in that case, google.
>>
>> Our resolv.conf points to several DNS servers for our ISP, which all
>> seem to always have an immediate answer when we do an nslookup
>> manually.
>>
>> Is squid caching negative dns queries?  Is there a way to flush these?
>>
>> Here is the text I am referring to as the last email.
>>
>> Upgraded squid to 3.1.12
>>
>> DNS is working from that machine, we are able to resolve both
>> www.carfax.com and carfax.com, and have even restarted squid after
>> looking those up.
>>
>>  From the squid log:
>> TCP_MISS/503 4367 GET http://www.carfax.com/ - DIRECT/www.carfax.com
>> text/html
>> (which takes forever)
>>
>> differs from something like google:
>> TCP_MISS/200 15049 GET http://www.google.com/ - DIRECT/74.125.93.147
>> text/html
>
> Nevermind. The default log in the version still outputs FQDN if known. It is
> fixed to show correct IP in the next series.
>
>>
>> Any advice?  Our ISP did switch DNS servers recently (we switched at
>> the same time as the squid update) but we aren't seeing this behavior
>> with other sites.
>>
>
> I looked a bit further and found that the NS hanging occurs reliably when it
> is asked for AAAA records. Such as what Squid-3.1 asks for.
>
> It is pretty clear that the site DNS is screwed bigtime.
>
> Amos
> --
> Please be using
>  Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.12
>  Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.8 and 3.1.12.2
>
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