Rodney Richison wrote: > I'm rather new to linux. I tested the nt port first, then ditched windows > and went with redhat. The windows port had an entry for the host_file.
If is not a nt port specific directive. All Squids 2.5 or later have this directive. > I entered my info in the /etc/hosts to no avail and after finding no entry > in the linux version for host_file I discover it uses internal dns and > won't > do a hosts file. (Tell me if I'm all mixed up here). Not having compiled a > linux program before, and having it working so very well right now.. I'm > leary of attempting to recompile. But, in the end, would that be the best > thing to do and disable the internal dns? The best action would be to upgrade to Squid-2.5. You probably have Squid-2.4 installed today.. If you do not find a prebuilt binary for your flavor of Linux then you need to recompile Squid. Compiling Squid is not very hard, just follow the INSTALL instructions. Regards Henrik
