[squid-users] Re: squid-users Digest 16 Jan 2002 07:39:33 -0000 Issue 411

> squid dont care what is your connection line (a dialup or a Lan
connection)

This is not true. If you use your IPs DNS then squid won't be able to resolve
the DNS of the proxy if it is started up when you are not on-line. It will
try a number of times but eventually give up. From cache.log:

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2002/01/13 12:24:49| idnsSendQuery: FD 1: sendto: (101) Network is unreachable
2002/01/13 12:24:55| comm_udp_sendto: FD 1, 212.187.250.80, port 53: (101) Network is unreachable
2002/01/13 12:24:55| idnsSendQuery: FD 1: sendto: (101) Network is unreachable
2002/01/13 12:25:00| comm_udp_sendto: FD 1, 212.187.250.87, port 53: (101) Network is unreachable
2002/01/13 12:25:00| idnsSendQuery: FD 1: sendto: (101) Network is unreachable
2002/01/13 12:25:05| idnsCheckQueue: ID 15: giving up after 20 tries and 108.6 seconds
2002/01/13 12:25:05| WARNING: DNS lookup for 'www-cache.demon.co.uk' failed!

At this point the log files show that squid will stop accessing the ISPs cache.

-Nigel

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