I'm trying to setup a squid proxy on a eight-win-hosts network linked to the internet through a Linux (mdk9.0) server (dhcp, samba, iptables, etc).
I'm using webmin. When I opened the squid module, I was advised to initialize the cache, which I did. I get this answer :

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Initialisation du cache de Squid à l'aide de la commande squid -f /etc/squid/squid.conf -z ..


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

Squid Cache (Version 2.4.STABLE7): Terminated abnormally.
CPU Usage: 0.040 seconds = 0.010 user + 0.030 sys
Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB
Page faults with physical i/o: 327
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I read in /etc/squid/squid.conf that the 'visible_hostname' is set to 'none' by default, and is not really necessary. Should I set it with my network's domain name ?

I read on a thread that DHCP will not give the proxy info to my hosts. Is that true ? (I'm using ISC DHCP)

Thanks

Fixed it. I had to set 'visible_hostname' in squid.conf
The thing is, $HOSTNAME and $DOMAINNAME are defined in /etc/sysconfig/network, but only $HOSTNAME seems to be defined ('echo $DOMAINNAME' echoes nothing).
It's strange, now as long as it works, I don't care !!