[squid-users] Squid not using hosts file

[Jazmine Redmond]

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 <jazjred at 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 <
> rousskov at 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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