[plug] squid

[David Griffiths]

>Hi,
>
>We are in the process of moving our proxy server from one box to
>another.
>
>I have installed the latest squid rpm onto the new server and it seems
>to have a few problems.  I elected to use an RPM due to the fact that I
>had been explained that a default installation of Squid will work with
>minimal changes to the squid.conf file.  I have made these changes.
>
>It seems that Squid cannot resolve URLs.  It lets me see our intranet
>pages if I give it the IP, but otherwise it gives me an error.  The
>dnsserver is set-up and running correctly, but I am wondering if Squid
>is ignoring/avoiding it.  I have even tried using the same squid.conf
>file that was used in the previous installation to no avail.
>

The default squid rpm config seems to want fully qualified domain names to
work. Not sure if there's a way around this - I just configure the client's
not to use the cache for each local http server. This is not much use
though if there's lots of clients/servers.

Dave.