Hi,

I have been trying to access my Linux computer webserver by its samba share name and it keeps failing with this error

"Unable to determine IP address from host name for.."

I currently go thru a transparent squid proxy to access the internet and it works fine. But if i type the name of the internal computer samba name from another computer on the local network ie http://mycomputer/ squid returns the error.

Now if i don't go thru squid, it works.

Now how do i get squid to recognise the internal computers name?

I currently have a bind dns server running.

Any help would be appreciated


Cheers

Michael

If you are using 'dns_nameserver' tag in squid.conf file, it should include localhost dns, for example:
dns_nameserver 127.0.0.1 202.23.4.4

If dns_nameserver tag is not used in squid.conf file you need to add localhost loopback or another ip in /etc/resolv.conf, for example it should look like:

nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 202.23.4.4

Also you need to configure your DNS server so it can respond ip addresses of host names, check your DNS server's dcoument.

The easiet way is to fill up the /etc/hosts file, for example,
it looks like:

127.0.0.1 server localhost.localdomain
10.0.0.2 client1
10.0.0.3 client2
10.0.0.4 client3

Hope it help you
Hamid