Hallo, January, Du meintest am 08.07.11: > I would like assistance in configuring squid 2.7 for Windows 7. > When my Internet connection goes down (my ethernet cable or my modem > gets disconnected), Squid terminates by itself. [...] > 2011/07/07 11:32:55| With 2048 CRT stdio descriptors available > 2011/07/07 11:32:55| Windows sockets initialized > 2011/07/07 11:32:55| Using select for the IO loop > 2011/07/07 11:32:55| Performing DNS Tests... > 2011/07/07 11:32:55| Leaving Squid service > FATAL: ipcache_init: DNS name lookup tests failed. > Squid Cache (Version 2.7.STABLE8): Terminated abnormally. That's strange - I run several versions of squid on many linux machines since years, they are disconnected for many hours in the early morning: I've never seen such an error message. Should it be a special windows problem? Viele Gruesse! Helmut