Re: [squid-users] Resolving local addresses

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Koppen, Peter van wrote:

> I've only recently become a member of [squid-users] so bare with me.
>
> We are using an old version of Squid, version 2.2 on SuSe 7.1 We are
> working on an upgrade to Suse 8.2 with Squid 2.5 stable1.

2.5.STABLE1 is also very old.. current release is 2.5.STABLE4 with
2.5.STABLE5 not far away.

> On our old squid if we browse to a local server with the short name
> (intranet) the proxy would resolve intranet with use of it's default
> domain (.north.mycomp.nl) then it would forward the request to the
> intranet server with the original short name.

See the local_domain directive. This is and has always been the official
way to do this in Squid.

Regards
Henrik