$author = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ; > > Just wanting to check something... > > When I manually set my browser to proxy via our squid cache, and I type in > a mangled web address into my browser, I get a squid error message back. > > However, when I'm using transparent proxying via nat using iptables, and I > type in a bogus web address into my browser, I get a browser error > message back.
when using a configured proxy your browser hands the request to the proxy and it is the proxy who resolves the name, hence why you receive the failure notice from the proxy. when the browser has no proxy configured it resolves the name before sending the request (which is trapped by the proxy and the name resolved again anyway). because your browser is now doing the name resolution it provides failure notices... hth marty -- Can't buy what I want because it's free. Can't be what they want because I'm me. "Corduroy" - Pearl Jam -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
