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
