When using a Proxy Automatic Configuration script, the script can be coded to use the client's own DNS library and search suffixes when a URL is accessed which is just a bare hostname. On 5/10/05, D & E Radel <radel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I check my resolv.conf, it's sweet. Pinging just the computer name (without > the DNS suffix appended) from the linux box results in a correct DNS lookup > and the ping works fine. However, Squid still doesn't resolve just the > computer name, even though the DNS config of the linux box is working. > > I added the append_domain option in Squid. This worked, however not without > problems. We have *two* domains with lengthy names. When using > append_domain, it blindly adds the single domain suffix to any computer name > without dots. If the computer is a member of another Whereas what I need is > a correct DNS lookup search because of our two domains. If one DNS lookup > fails, try the next domain suffix, etc. > > Is this do-able? Yes it is do-able, but it's not pretty. If you reconfigure squid using the "--disable-internal-dns" flag, recompile, and re-install, squid will go back to the old behavior of using "dnsserver" with the system resolver library (which obeys /etc/resolv.conf), instead of the embedded DNS code. This should address your problem, but may cause other problems in the long run. The "--disable-internal-dns" configure option is deprecated, as the dnsserver solution is inefficient, does not scale well. This could work out okay on a lightly loaded cache serving a limited number of users. Kevin Kadow
