On 4/01/2014 10:47 a.m., glen dovey wrote: > figured it out. it was a dns issue with localhost. heres what was > happening inside /etc/resolv.conf was localhost and my isps dns. > obviously it was using localhost to do dns queries and when it timed > out it failed over to my isps dns which found the host immediately and > loaded the page. to fix it i added dns_nameservers into squid.conf and > restarted squid > Anything else on your machine using DNS will be having the same problems one way or another. The better solution is to fix resolv.conf so the problem does not occur. Amos