Hey all, I fixed the issue. The problem was in the hosts file. Each new line should begin with the IP address, followed by one or more spaces, followed by a name. My hosts file had a space before the IP address. Once I removed the space at the beginning of the line, everything worked fine. I downgraded my Squid to a supported version v2.7 so I can confirm it works on this version. I have not upgraded to v3.5 yet... perhaps in the future.
Thanks for the help! Jazmine On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 2:01 PM Jazmine Redmond <jazj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > You mentioned supported Squid versions. For Windows I see Squid versions > 3.5, 3.3 and 2.7. Which ones are supported? > Additionally, what are the supported versions for Linux? > > Jazmine > > On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:04 AM Alex Rousskov < > rouss...@measurement-factory.com> wrote: > >> On 5/6/21 12:09 AM, Jazmine Redmond wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am having issues getting Squid to use the hosts file on the squid >> server. >> > >> > I added the hosts_file configuration directive to my squid config file >> > as follows: >> > >> > hosts_file C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts >> > >> > But, when my squid client browser specifies a URL with a machine name >> > listed in the hosts file, squid returns an error that says: >> > >> > “Unable to determine IP address from host name. The DNS server returned: >> > Name Error: the domain name does not exist. This means that the cache >> > was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL.” >> > >> > So, it seems that squid is NOT using my hosts file. >> > >> > I have tried using forward slashes (/) and backward slashes (\) in the >> > hosts_file configuration directive, yet the error persists. >> > >> > I have verified the path to the hosts file is correct and I restart >> > Squid each time I make edits to the configuration file. Yet the error >> > persists. >> > >> > I am running Squid version 3.5.28 on Windows 10. >> > >> > Am I missing something? >> >> Supported Squid versions are known to use /etc/hosts file. I do not know >> whether there are any Windows-specific or v3-specific bugs in that area. >> Unfortunately, very few people responding on this mailing list are using >> Squid v3 and Squid on Windows in general. That is probably why you are >> not getting any responses. >> >> If you can try a supported Squid version, please do so (especially if >> you can try it on Linux). You may also share a pointer to a compressed >> cache.log after setting debug_options to ALL,9 in case somebody >> volunteers to help you with triage. >> >> Alex. >> >
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