[ILUG] Squid and a caching name server

[Stephane Dudzinski]

Yep, got the same problem on my personal box over the week end,
installed a brand new mandrake 8.1 which had squid as a package. Had to
edit squid.conf to specify DNS, works fine now.

Steph

On Mon, 2001-10-08 at 09:18, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> Get over it mon :)
> 
> No seriously, disable DNS (temorarily) and edit squid.conf, look for a line
> dnsserver (sorry from the head, don't have a box near me) you can manually
> specify the nameservers from resolve.conf which are added when you connected
> to the net. 
> 
> This way you bypass DNS and your squid will be cool.
> 
> Later,
> CW
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------
> I'm trying to revive squid on my machine. It works fine as long as I'm
> connected, but when I disconnect from the net it loses the plot and even
> after reconnecting it still won't work. The way to resolve it is to restart
> squid after connecting to the net but this is a bit of a PITA.
> 
> It seems to me that the way to solve this is to set up a local caching
> nameserver, something that's been on the long finger for an even longer
> time. So, I installed bind on this box but I've one query - from the DNS
> HOWTO I have a sample caching named.conf which is rather simple 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> options {
> 	directory "/var/named";
> };
> zone "." {
> 	type hint;
>         file "root.hints";
> };
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
> 	type master;
>         file "pz/127.0.0";
> };
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> and when I installed the bind8 RPM from SuSE 7.2 I got a similar named.conf,
> but it has a forwarders line commented out in options. Should I use a
> forwarders line or not ? It seems to me that if I don't use one, queries
> which can't be resolved from the cache will just be forwarded according to
> the current contents of resolv.conf, which may change depending on which ISP
> I'm using. My understanding of forwarders is that you'd more commonly use
> them in a smallish network where you had a few internal servers, and only
> one or two which you actually wanted to do all your external lookups. So
> bottom line question - use a forwarders line or not, and if so, how would I
> cope with using different providers (I think most provider's name servers
> here are farily agnostic about who they will answer queries from, but that
> might change)
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Niall
> 
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