Dear ALL,

Following error i got

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.google.com/

The following error was encountered:

Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.google.com
The dnsserver returned:

Timeout
This means that:

The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.
Check if the address is correct.

following in cache.log

2004/12/29 07:13:01| comm_udp_sendto: FD 7, 12.127.17.71, port 53: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:01| idnsSendQuery: FD 7: sendto: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:21| comm_udp_sendto: FD 7, 12.127.16.67, port 53: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:21| idnsSendQuery: FD 7: sendto: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:21| comm_udp_sendto: FD 7, 12.127.17.71, port 53: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:21| idnsSendQuery: FD 7: sendto: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:21| comm_udp_sendto: FD 7, 12.127.16.67, port 53: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:21| idnsSendQuery: FD 7: sendto: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:41| comm_udp_sendto: FD 7, 12.127.17.71, port 53: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:13:41| idnsSendQuery: FD 7: sendto: (11) Resource temporarily unavailable
2004/12/29 07:50:38| Failure Ratio at 1.00
2004/12/29 07:50:38| Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes...
2004/12/29 07:55:38| Failure Ratio at 15.91
2004/12/29 07:55:38| Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes...
2004/12/29 08:00:48| Failure Ratio at 50.99
2004/12/29 08:00:48| Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes...
2004/12/29 08:05:48| Failure Ratio at 107.50
2004/12/29 08:05:48| Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes...
2004/12/29 08:11:48| Failure Ratio at 696.87
2004/12/29 08:11:48| Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes...
2004/12/29 08:16:48| Failure Ratio at 338.25
2004/12/29 08:16:48| Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes...

Does your Squid machine have a working Internet connection? Can you browse from it? Are you running a DNS server as well or using the ISP DNS servers? A little more info and we can get to the bottom of it.

I'm able to
#dig www.google.com

and get the ip address of google.com

I'm using the ISP's DNS .

I'm able to
#dig www.google.com

and get the ip address of google.com

I'm using the ISP's DNS .

And therefore you should be able to browse. What are your settings in squid.conf for dns caching? Do you have dns_nameservers set? Normally when using the machines DNS settings, this is unnecessary. Can you post the sections of the squid.conf dealing with DNS requests and caching?

hello simplyrahul... i was just wondering if perhaps you could share how you resolved this issue... i'm having a very similar one and i haven't been able to figure it out yet after quite a bit of troubleshooting... any comments would be very welcome...