> -----Original Message----- > From: D & E Radel [mailto:radel@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:20 PM > To: Chris Robertson; Kevin; squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [squid-users] dns lookups > > > > From: "Chris Robertson": > >> If you are able to ping a domain-name-less box from the command line, but >> can't surf to it through Squid, then you should check your squid.conf for >> the dns_nameservers directive (make sure it's commented). Squid, by >> default >> will use the /etc/resolv.conf file to determine which DNS servers to >> query, >> and is capable of proxying single entry hosts. >> >> Chris > > > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for your reply. Yes I am able to ping a domain-name-less box from the > commandline, but cannot surf to it through Squid unless I type the full > domain name. I have checked my squid.conf and there are no lines with "dns" > or "DNS" in it. > > Regards, > Dietrich Are you using a parent cache? There has to be some reason that it's not working for you... For what it's worth, I have a cache server set up running Squid2.5Stable7 using itself (Bind8) for DNS lookups. Single word DNS entries ("webserver" for example) resolve just fine, and I can surf to them using Squid. Said server has a parent cache, but is set to go direct for local IP address destinations (which the IP address for "webserver" is). Chris
