Re: FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'

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Subject: Re: FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'
From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:48:17 +0100
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Joeffrey Betita wrote:

hi i was configuring squid-2.5.STABLE5-4.fc2 /usr/sbin/squid -z after typing
this command. an error message came up. below is the error message.

FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname.  Please set
'visible_hostname'

Edit /etc/squid/squid.conf and set the visible_hostname parameter to the full hostname of your cache (e.g. squid.example.com).

Paul.

References:
- FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'
  - From: Joeffrey Betita