On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:32:12PM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Is there a way to turn off dns lookups for local network queries? > We have one of our PC's set up as an internal (local network) web > server. The PC is listed in each of the other linux machines /etc/hosts > file with a local network ip address. When squid is turned off it is > easy for the network PC's to access the internal web pages by putting in > the name of the server in the address bar. When squid is turned on each > user gets the message that it can not be found. > Since the machine functioning as the apache server is inside the local > network it is not listed in the dns servers. When squid is function the > query fails. Is there a way to put an entry in the squid.conf file so > that named queries can point back to the local network even though a dns > record does not exist? Do you have the option of making a proxy autoconfig file (such as used by Firefox)? In that case, you could simply configure it so those hosts are accessed directly without even involving squid. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
