Interestingly Henrik , I have added those ADS servers IPs in /etc/hosts when i setup the proxy and still I dont know why this happend. Anything you want me to check it up? Regards Babs --- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Babs wrote: > > > Hi > > As the linuxbox access the Win2K box running ADS > for > > getting the user authenticated using > squid_ldap_auth, > > when the machine running DNS goes down linuxbox is > > not able to reach the Win2K box running ADS I > suppose. > > As soon as the DNS system came back to life > > authentication is working fine. Anyone can tell me > > more why this happens? > > squid_ldap_auth needs to be able to find the IP > address from your ADS > server name in order to connect to it.. > > You can work around this by adding the ADS server to > your local /etc/hosts > file. > > Regards > Henrik > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/