it's just redirecting to login.yahoo.com again... but with a long URL, I will do some more digging and get you a more specific answer. I will also check, but I'm pretty sure we are at the latest available squid 2.7 BSD port. I will post back more accurate details. Amos Jeffries wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:17:54 -0400, Rick Chisholm <rchisholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> In this config - squid is using it's own dnsservers setting in >> squid.conf in order to avoid the local resolver setting on the OS. We >> are essentially using squid to avoid openDNS for a particular group at >> work who need access to things we usually block. >> >> The Yahoo login page immediately redirects to some other, much longer >> URL and that where Squid seems to run into trouble. Using dig to test >> the same resolvers that Squid is using does not return an error when >> querying for login.yahoo.com - squid also functions perfectly fine with >> other login pages like hotmail, gmail etc. It seems to be just Yahoo. > > And the domain to which its redirecting? > > It may be a matter of the URL vs Squid release. Do try latest release of > the version you are currently using, there are both DNS and URL-length > fixes in the more current ones. > > Amos > >> Amos Jeffries wrote: >>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:01:40 -0400, Rick Chisholm >>> <rchisholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>> what's up with Squid and https://login.yahoo.com? >>>> >>>> Our marketing dept. at work needs access to Yahoo Analytics, but they >>>> have to login via Yahoo! regular login. Squid complains about a DNS >>>> resolution issue but names the link as >>>> >>>> http://443 >>>> >>>> It's quite odd. >>> The strange link is due to some older Squid (3.x?) not generating the >>> error >>> page link correctly for HTTPS. >>> >>> The problem is still Squid being unable to perform DNS lookups or > getting >>> no results back for the domain. >>> Try a newer release if you can and figure out why its not getting any > DNS >>> results back from the resolver. >>> >>> Amos >>> > -- Rick Chisholm sysadmin Parallel42 e. rchisholm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx m. 519-325-8630 w. www.parallel42.ca
