A few days ago, Squid was working perfectly fine. I have neither made changes to Squid nor any changes to system configuration files. In fact, I have not even logged into the server since the problems arose. Today, I am unable to visit websites while surfing through Squid. When my web browser is configured to use the Squid proxy, I get the username and password prompt as I should (I use ncsa_auth). However, I then get the following error which appears to be DNS related: The requested URL could not be retrieved -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.google.com/ The following error was encountered: Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.google.com The dnsserver returned: Refused: The name server refuses to perform the specified operation. This means that: The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL. Check if the address is correct. Your cache administrator is root. My access.log shows the following entries: 1237099689.372 13 xx.xx.xx.xx TCP_HIT/301 546 GET http://google.com/ myusername NONE/- text/html 1237099689.515 15 xx.xx.xx.xx TCP_MISS/503 1512 GET http://www.google.com/ myusername DIRECT/www.google.com text/html So it appears that the problem is DNS related, however, I am able to resolve domain names with the same nameservers that Squid is using when I ping google.com or other domains. I have also tried using other nameservers which I have verified that work and Squid refused to resolve domains to IP addresses. Any help is appreciated!
