On Jan 8, 2008 11:59 AM, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > my dhcp server assigns both ip addresses and dns servers to clinets. I have set my Ubuntu box 'Base' up as a DNS Server and tried to use squid with partial results. Firefox returns the following: ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.cricinfo.com/ The following error was encountered: * Unable to forward this request at this time. This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that: * The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct connections to origin servers, and * All configured parent caches are currently unreachable. Your cache administrator is webmaster. Generated Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:47:36 GMT by Base (squid/2.6.STABLE14) /var/log/squid/access.log contains the following: root@Base:/home/dave# cat /var/log/squid/access.log 192.168.60.199 - - [09/Jan/2008:12:44:04 +0200] "GET http://en-gb.start2.mozilla.com/firefox? HTTP/1.1" 503 1619 TCP_MISS:NONE 192.168.60.199 - - [09/Jan/2008:12:46:44 +0200] "GET http://en-gb.start2.mozilla.com/firefox? HTTP/1.1" 503 1619 TCP_MISS:NONE 192.168.60.199 - - [09/Jan/2008:12:47:29 +0200] "GET http://google.com/ HTTP/1.1" 503 1575 TCP_MISS:NONE 192.168.60.199 - - [09/Jan/2008:12:47:29 +0200] "GET http://google.com/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 503 1597 TCP_MISS:NONE 192.168.60.199 - - [09/Jan/2008:12:47:29 +0200] "GET http://google.com/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 503 1597 TCP_MISS:NONE 192.168.60.199 - - [09/Jan/2008:12:47:36 +0200] "GET http://www.cricinfo.com/ HTTP/1.1" 503 1587 TCP_MISS:NONE /var/log/squid/cache.log has the following. root@Base:/home/dave# cat /var/log/squid/cache.log 2008/01/09 07:35:12| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2008/01/09 07:35:12| Finished. Wrote 56 entries. 2008/01/09 07:35:12| Took 0.0 seconds (325581.4 entries/sec). 2008/01/09 07:35:12| logfileRotate: /var/log/squid/store.log 2008/01/09 07:35:12| logfileRotate: /var/log/squid/access.log 2008/01/09 12:44:04| Failed to select source for 'http://en-gb.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official' 2008/01/09 12:44:04| always_direct = -1 2008/01/09 12:44:04| never_direct = 1 2008/01/09 12:44:04| timedout = 0 2008/01/09 12:46:44| Failed to select source for 'http://en-gb.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official' 2008/01/09 12:46:44| always_direct = -1 2008/01/09 12:46:44| never_direct = 1 2008/01/09 12:46:44| timedout = 0 root@Base:/home/dave# cat /var/log/squid/cache.log 2008/01/09 07:35:12| storeDirWriteCleanLogs: Starting... 2008/01/09 07:35:12| Finished. Wrote 56 entries. 2008/01/09 07:35:12| Took 0.0 seconds (325581.4 entries/sec). 2008/01/09 07:35:12| logfileRotate: /var/log/squid/store.log 2008/01/09 07:35:12| logfileRotate: /var/log/squid/access.log 2008/01/09 12:44:04| Failed to select source for 'http://en-gb.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official' 2008/01/09 12:44:04| always_direct = -1 2008/01/09 12:44:04| never_direct = 1 2008/01/09 12:44:04| timedout = 0 2008/01/09 12:46:44| Failed to select source for 'http://en-gb.start2.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official' 2008/01/09 12:46:44| always_direct = -1 2008/01/09 12:46:44| never_direct = 1 2008/01/09 12:46:44| timedout = 0 2008/01/09 12:47:29| Failed to select source for 'http://google.com/' 2008/01/09 12:47:29| always_direct = -1 2008/01/09 12:47:29| never_direct = 1 2008/01/09 12:47:29| timedout = 0 2008/01/09 12:47:29| Failed to select source for 'http://google.com/favicon.ico' 2008/01/09 12:47:29| always_direct = -1 2008/01/09 12:47:29| never_direct = 1 2008/01/09 12:47:29| timedout = 0 2008/01/09 12:47:29| Failed to select source for 'http://google.com/favicon.ico' 2008/01/09 12:47:29| always_direct = -1 2008/01/09 12:47:29| never_direct = 1 2008/01/09 12:47:29| timedout = 0 2008/01/09 12:47:36| Failed to select source for 'http://www.cricinfo.com/' 2008/01/09 12:47:36| always_direct = -1 2008/01/09 12:47:36| never_direct = 1 2008/01/09 12:47:36| timedout = 0 However, I can no longer ssh into Base as the name won't reconcile, I now must access 192.168.60.254 (eth1) or 192.168.10.23 (eth0) I feel I am getting close, but need to find out why 'Base' is no longer working (you will notice that the prompt is 'root@Base'. Can you offer any suggestions?