Hi Guys, So I've got pretty far with configuring my installation of squid. I'm extremely pleased with the progress so far, but one thing is holding me back. The problem is that I want to direct requests for a particular domain through to a web server that I have configured internally. I thought I could simply change an entry in the /etc/hosts file on the server squid is running on, for example; 198.xxx.xxx.xxx www.hotmail.com Every request that a browser makes for www.hotmail.com will be resolved by squid to the ip address 198.xxx.xxx.xxx. However this didn't work. Basically when I make this change, and make a request for www.hotmail.com, the browser hangs. But when when i remove this entry from the hosts file the browser is able to get to hotmail successfully. That tells me that squid is reading the hosts file, but there is possibly some error in the name resolution. NOTE: I understand that you have to restart squid for it to see the changes in the hosts file, as specified in; http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.6/cfgman/hosts_file.html Before I go on, I should mention that I am running squid 2.6 on ubuntu jaunty jackolope. There is a webserver running on the same machine that I've tried it with and another internal webserver running on a different machine. In addition I've chained this proxy to a parent proxy that requires authentication. Now I am not a network guy, this isn't (usually) my job, its just happened to have landed on my lap and there's nobody else that can do it (i'm not bitter). So my understanding of how proxy servers resolve hostnames is sketchy at best. IIUC when squid gets a request for a host name it will try to resolve it against a DNS server. The /etc/hosts file acts as a local DNS server/lookup for squid. If squid finds an entry for the host name in this hosts file than it will resolve to this IP address. However what I'm not sure about is whether the parent proxy will use this ip address or do its own DNS lookup. I mean does squid send the hostname or the IP address to the parent? Because this could be a potential problem. If its the case is the child proxy has a problem with the lookup, how would I be able to tell? Also, is this the correct way of assigning a different IP address to a hostname? Will the hosts file solution suffice? Am I overlooking something? Do I need a full blown DNS server? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Squid-Redirect-With-Hosts-File-And-Parent-Proxy-tp25041227p25041227.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
