Dear all,

iam using RH-with squid 2.5 i am getting the below error, i can't able to access any urls.

regards
hari

The requested URL could not be retrieved

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

The following error was encountered:

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

Refused: The name server refuses to perform the specified operation.
This means that:

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



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Generated Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:15:20 GMT by hari (squid/2.5.STABLE1)

i'm pretty new to squid. you'll have that message right after you installed successfully the squid proxy. to be able to access other sites you have to edit your squid.conf file. you have to create a acl and acl operator. would you mind if i ask why are you insalling a proxy(squid)?

Hi

It seems to me that, that that error message is a result of a problem on the DNS server not with squid.

best regards

Please post the content of your /etc/squid/squid.conf file.
Try to access the web, both by DNS names www.linuxquestions.org, and by IP address.

can you pull up web pages (using lynx for instance) from the proxy server itself (ie: bypassing squid entirely)? All signs point to a dodgy DNS config or filter somewhere... unless you've specifically played with the default squid DNS options and broken them, I can't see how it would be the proxy server.

Try and work out why the DNS server is refusing the connection and you will have solved your problem...

I have a smiple squid 2.5 running on a home network
Don't laugh cause it works !
P166 (downgraded from a P200 due to hardware problem)
32 MB (SIMM's)
2 GB HDD
Running Vector Linux 3.2
I too get similar DNS resolution errors, to check I usually go direct and try the same url and if it works I put it down to my squid running on such a low end machine. A restart of squid usually fixes the problem.
It is not really a major bother cause otherwise it works just fine. Like right now.
This is coming to you via my squid as above

hai

the problem is like that some times i can browse google.com, and sometimes it is telling the error. I just checked my hosts, resolve.conf, hosts.allow everything and bind the DNS also. Please help me immediately.

how to resolve name to ip.

regards
hari