Steve King wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2004 02:20, Adam Aube wrote: >> Steve King wrote:
>>> Sometimes my PC gets turned on without the cable modem being turned on. >>> Without Squid, I can turn the modem on, wait a couple of seconds, and >>> everything is fine. But with Squid I get a message that the site I am >>> looking for cannot be accessed. >> You should be able to just refresh the page once the cable modem finishes >> initializing. If not, try adjusting your dns_negative_ttl to a lower >> value. > Thanks for the info, Adam. It didn't do the trick, sadly. > I have done some experiments: > - If I turn the modem off after I have booted up, then eventually the > browser says that the site cannot be found. This does not seem to be a > squid msg. - If I then turn the modem on and wait a few moments before > clicking refresh, then sure enough the site comes up, as you'd expect. > But if the modem is turned off when the machine is booting, then turning > the modem on does not help. I have to restart squid. Have you tried editing your init.d script to run Squid with the -D option (disables DNS checks)? Also, are there any error messages in cache.log? Adam
