On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, [iso-8859-1] Swaroop Shere wrote:
But still it did not work. Then i edited the /etc/hosts file, and entered ip addresses for google.com, and google.co.in. After this i started squid and and typed www.google.com on a browser, it worked. So, maybe squid does require a dns server for reslving its acl [to_localhost]. That's what I found when I increased the debug level to 3 and saw that www.google.com was being compared to [to_localhost], BEFORE i edited the /etc/hosts file.
If you have ACLs touching destination hostnames or IP addresses then your Squid will require DNS.
This is also why the to_localhost rule is disabled by default.
Regards Henrik
