Re: squid and dns lookups

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On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 20:39 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:32:12PM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > Is there a way to turn off dns lookups for local network queries?
> > We have one of our PC's set up as an internal (local network) web
> > server.  The PC is listed in each of the other linux machines /etc/hosts
> > file with a local network ip address.  When squid is turned off it is
> > easy for the network PC's to access the internal web pages by putting in
> > the name of the server in the address bar.  When squid is turned on each
> > user gets the message that it can not be found.  
> > Since the machine functioning as the apache server is inside the local
> > network it is not listed in the dns servers.  When squid is function the
> > query fails.  Is there a way to put an entry in the squid.conf file so
> > that named queries can point back to the local network even though a dns
> > record does not exist?
> 
> Do you have the option of making a proxy autoconfig file (such as used by
> Firefox)? In that case, you could simply configure it so those hosts are
> accessed directly without even involving squid. 
> -- 
> Matthew Miller           mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx          <http://mattdm.org/>
> Boston University Linux      ------>              <http://linux.bu.edu/>
> 

Matthew,

Thanks for taking the time to answer.  The networks are hybrids about
3/4 Fedora Linux at this point and 1/4 MS products.  I am not familiar
with the autoconfig file of Firefox, but Firefox is what I use on the
Linux systems.   I'll take  a look... thanks again for your suggestion!!

Greg


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