Hi, I am still unable to get Squid to process my acl_external_type script to run as expected. I'm getting an error in my cache.log 'ipcacheAddEntryFromHosts: Bad IP address 'localhost.localdomain'' (see log listing below) Is it possible that this is causing my script's anomalies? Kind Regards, Dave Coventry 2008/03/11 13:00:33| Starting Squid Cache version 3.0.STABLE2-20080307 for i686-pc-linux-gnu... 2008/03/11 13:00:33| Process ID 4635 2008/03/11 13:00:33| With 1024 file descriptors available 2008/03/11 13:00:33| ipcacheAddEntryFromHosts: Bad IP address 'localhost.localdomain' 2008/03/11 13:00:33| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32772, FD 7 2008/03/11 13:00:33| Adding nameserver 192.168.10.213 from /etc/resolv.conf 2008/03/11 13:00:33| helperOpenServers: Starting 5 'checkip' processes 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 17 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Target number of buckets: 393 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Using 8192 Store buckets 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Max Swap size: 102400 KB 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Version 1 of swap file with LFS support detected... 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Rebuilding storage in /usr/local/squid/var/cache (DIRTY) 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Using Least Load store dir selection 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Set Current Directory to /usr/local/squid/var/cache 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Loaded Icons. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Accepting transparently proxied HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 19. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 20. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| HTCP Disabled. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Ready to serve requests. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Done reading /usr/local/squid/var/cache swaplog (201 entries) 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| 201 Entries scanned 2008/03/11 13:00:34| 0 Invalid entries. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| 0 With invalid flags. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| 201 Objects loaded. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| 0 Objects expired. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| 0 Objects cancelled. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Took 0.14 seconds (1415.77 objects/sec). 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Beginning Validation Procedure 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Completed Validation Procedure 2008/03/11 13:00:34| Validated 427 Entries 2008/03/11 13:00:34| store_swap_size = 2252 2008/03/11 13:00:35| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects