Hello I am running Squid on a windows environment so I tried the following Went to the Squid_Proxy service and added -D to the parameters to apply when starting services: same error Created script "f:\Squid\sbin\squid.exe -D" same DNS lookup error on the log. Any suggestions? Thanks Gustavo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Itzcak Pechtalt [mailto:itzcak@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:23 PM To: Gustavo Lazarte Subject: Re: FW: What does Squid connects to when it launches Run Squid with -D command line option, for example "/sbin/squid -D" On 10/4/06, Gustavo Lazarte <glazarte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Is this the right command? dns_testnames -D >> %CONFFILE% I am getting the same error, probably my syntax is wrong Thanks for your help Gustavo -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto: henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:02 AM To: Gustavo Lazarte Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: What does Squid connects to when it launches ons 2006-10-04 klockan 09:55 -0400 skrev Gustavo Lazarte: > It looks like it still doing a DNS lookup > > 2006/10/04 10:04:49| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE3-NT-CVS for i686-pc-winnt... > 2006/10/04 10:04:49| Running as Squid_Proxy Windows System Service on Windows 2000 > 2006/10/04 10:04:49| Service command line is: > 2006/10/04 10:04:49| Process ID 1484 > 2006/10/04 10:04:49| With 2048 file descriptors available > 2006/10/04 10:04:49| With 2048 CRT stdio descriptors available > 2006/10/04 10:04:49| Windows sockets initialized > 2006/10/04 10:04:49| Performing DNS Tests... > FATAL: ipcache_init: DNS name lookup tests failed. > > How do I stop Squid from running that Lookup? The -D command line option disables the DNS check. Regards Henrik Gustavo Lazarte Network Engineer Hurd I/T Communications 703 442 3422 x 105