Re: Help: squid on a dial-up machine

[Paul Wright <paul@cvanet.com>]

On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 17:32:18 EDT, Eugene wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with squid (2.4.1-5) seemingly ignoring the '-D'
> during the startup.
> 
> When booting, squid dies because it cannot find nameservers (of
> course! I'm on a dial-up!), despite being told (per man page) to
> "disable initial DNS tests" with the '-D' option.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 

You may want to build a caching-only nameserver on localhost.  I am not 
using squid atm, but use a cahing-only nameserver to reduce traffic/
connection times on my dialup link.  It should work w/o problems for 
squid. The bind package set up a caching-only nameserver when installed.  
There is more info at:

http://localhost/doc/HOWTO/en-html/DNS-HOWTO.html

or

/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/DNS-HOWTO.txt.gz

if you do not have the HOWTOs installed on you machine, look here:

http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html

the setup described in the howto differs somewhat from the debian bind 
defaults, but it explains the concepts pretty well.  Read the HOWTO, but 
use the defaults, IMHO.


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