On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM, RM <bearmeat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! > Another thing I forgot to mention is that I have tried completely disabling my IPTables firewall and the problem persisted.
