[squid-users] acl for redirect

[Mike]

We have a DNS guru on staff and editing the resolv.conf in this manner 
does not work (we tested it to make sure). Looks like we are using an 
older desktop to setup a basic DNS server and then point squid to redirect.



Mike


On 7/2/2015 2:06 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2015-07-01, Mike <mcsnv96 at afo.net> wrote:
>> This is a proxy server, not a DNS server, and does not connect to a DNS
>> server that we have any control over... The primary/secondary DNS is
>> handled through the primary host (Cox) for all of our servers so we do
>> not want to alter it for all several hundred servers, just these 4
>> (maybe 6).
>> I was originally thinking of modifying the resolv.conf but again that is
>> internal DNS used by the server itself. The users will have their own
>> DNS settings causing it to either ignore our settings, or right back to
>> the "Website cannot be displayed" errors due to the DNS loop.
> resolv.conf would work, or you can use dns_nameservers in squid.conf and
> point just squid (if you want) to a private resolver configured to hand
> out the forcesafesearch address.
>
> When a proxy is used, the client defers name resolution to the proxy, you
> don't need to change DNS on client machines to do this.
>
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