Hi there, I'm using Squid 3.1 as part of a proxy chain. I'm trying to make Squid use the local /etc/hosts file for name resolution before forwarding the request to the next proxy in the chain, but I've been unable to make it work, even by explicitly using the hosts_file directive. I'd be really grateful if anyone could help! Here's an example: I'll access a website normally via the proxy, with no weirdness in /etc/hosts > cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > echo $http_proxy http://localhost:3128 > curl http://yahoo.com The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com/";>here</A>.<P> <!-- w33.fp.sk1.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Wed Oct 26 17:12:17 PDT 2011 --> Now I'll change /etc/hosts to point yahoo.com to google.com. Notice that the proxy doesn't respect this: it still goes to yahoo.com rather than google.com. > cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 74.125.224.148 yahoo.com ### IP of google.com > echo $http_proxy http://localhost:3128 > curl http://yahoo.com The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com/";>here</A>.<P> <!-- w59.fp.sp2.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Wed Oct 26 17:13:06 PDT 2011 --> Now I'll disable the local proxy, and /etc/localhosts is respected. > unset http_proxy > curl http://yahoo.com <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> <TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> <H1>302 Moved</H1> The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.google.com/";>here</A>. </BODY></HTML> Here is my squid.conf: visible_hostname localhost http_port 3128 acl all src all acl all_src src all acl all_dst dst all acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 acl localhost_dst dst 127.0.0.1/32 http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager all_src http_access allow localhost http_access deny all_src http_access allow all_dst http_access deny localhost_dst http_reply_access allow all_src icp_access deny all_src coredump_dir /tmp never_direct allow all no_cache deny all peer_connect_timeout 120 seconds strip_query_terms off access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log useragent_log /var/log/squid/useragent.log referer_log /var/log/squid/referer.log cache_peer XX.XX.XX.XX parent 3128 0 login=XXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXX hosts_file /etc/hosts Thanks for any suggestions! David
