Re: [Sheflug] diald & squid

["Rush" <nospam [at] m0bvl.fsnet.co.uk>]

hi barry cheers
i figured this was what was happennig but cant resolve it squid is on the
same machine as the modem so also diald .



(Needs Windows 95.98,NT or better) So i installed LINUX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrie Bremner" <baz [at] barriebremner.com>
To: "Sheflug" <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:02 PM
Subject: [Sheflug] diald & squid


>
> Hi there, Rush.
>
> The reason Squid is complaining is because it cannot access a DNS
> server to resolve the names of the website you want to access.
> If you had a DNS server locally, it would complain the network is
> unreachable or some such.
> This is because the internet connection is down at the time you've
> been requesting websites.
>
> All of your problems could probably be attributed to your diald
> config.
> I know next to nothing about diald, so I can't help you on that
> front. Provided the Squid machine is using the machine running diald
> as a gateway (is it?) then diald should detect the traffic and dial
> the modem/ISDN/whatever.
>
> You might need to increase the timeouts with Squid to ensure it waits
> long enough for the connection to be dialled and connected before it
> starts to complain.
>
> Sorry I can't help more, but as I said, I haven't looked at diald.
>
> Baz
>
> Rush writes:
>  > hi all
>  >   long time no write but here is my problem
>  >   trying to set up squid as transparent proxy and also dial on demand
any
>  > ideas.Have followed the howtos and all pc's on network will connect to
squid
>  > server but the server gives error "the cache was not able to resolve
the
>  > hostname presented in the  url check if the address is correct also
nothing
>  > dials wvdial will connect if manualy provocted but the dialed script
wont
>  > start it . using suse 6.3 one nic card eide external modem as i said
the
>  > machine will connect to the net from its own terminal so any help
please
>  > Yours Russ
>  >
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