Tim is our resident Squid guru by the way if anyone else has any other questions.
At 09:34 AM 5/30/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Sounds like you had some negative caching somewhere, where the machine >cached the fact that some URL was inaccessible. This could have happened >either in the DNS components of squid, the http components of squid, or >either of those in the windows box, depending on exactly how you were >set up at the time. It could also have been that your squid service died >for some reason, and the windows machine was pulling the pages it could >from its browser cache. Another thing to check on IE is the "Work >Offline" setting. Really stupid things can happen when that gets turned >on. > >On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 02:14, Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > > Dear friends: > > I had an episode with smoothwall/squid a couple days ago. The network > > was acting weird, some urls went throug fine while others would not do > > anything. Literally, I had no problem with google, yet cnn.com did not > > reach and it gave a DNS error. > > > > I for a day or so I thought there was a big network problem somewhere, > > however, after that I decided to test the systems with a different DNS > > and to my surprise everything was working just fine. I looked at the > > logs of the firewall/proxy and did not see anything. I decided to reboot > > ther server like a windows machine and everything was fixed after that. > > > > I am very curious to know what happened there. I am not familiar with > > squid or any proxy server for that matter. I am certain that that was > > the problem because of all the tests I did. could any one tell me wassup > > with that? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Alvaro Zuniga > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
