>>> Antony Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 18/07/2003 19:26:03 >>> > On Friday 18 July 2003 6:38 pm, Aidan Gregory wrote:
>> We have a very simple test setup: >> >> 1 box (Sun running Solaris 8) running Squid >> 1 box (Sun running Solaris 8) running DNS >> >> Inside the firewall the domain name is mydomain.com. Outside the >> firewall we also have a web server: www.mydomain.com . Users can browse >> the external web server from inside the firewall if Squid is not used as >> the proxy, but as soon as the proxy is enabled in the browser, any >> attempt to access the external server results in a DNS error (Unable to >> determine IP address from host name for www.mydomain.com ). >> >> Any suggestions where I might be going wrong ? > > I assume, because you mention your DNS server, that both your clients (which > can access the website) and the squid proxy (which cannot) are pointing to > this for their primary name resolution. Is this assumption correct? > Yes. > Does your DNS server run 'split DNS', providing different answers depending > on the IP address of the questioner? If so, do your clients and your proxy > fall into different ranges as far as the DNS server is concerned? > No, we don't run split DNS. > Do you have any NAT involved here? > Yes, the firewall operates NAT. > Just one final question: can the squid machine proxy correctly for other > websites - ie is the problem just associated with your own web server? > The squid machines proxies fine for all other websites - it's just our web server outside the firewall that we have the problem with. > Regards, > > Antony. Thanks for your help, Aidan
