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> My squid has been failing intermittently. > Anyway, my squid server uses the internet router as its > default gateway. i configured the DNS to poing to my > internal DNS for local name resolution. > everything works fine since the internet gateway has globas > DNS entries pointing to the ISPs DNS. Ok. > However for about 2 days now the name resolution just > fails. i can't ping a website from squid during this > period. i don't know what happens but everything > just gets back to normal. Probably a problem with your internal DNS. > now i have replaced the internal DNSs with the global DNS > on the router. everything works perfectly now. Almost certainly a problem with your internal DNS. > However i suspect i will have a problem with > samba if i do not have the internal DNS conigured for > on the squid server. No; Samba generally will use either the IP Address or NetBIOS, not DNS. This probably changes with Samba 3 in an Active Directory environment. Adam
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