Re: [squid-users] Squid not responding

On Saturday 10 November 2007 01:46:59 Amos Jeffries wrote:
> stephane lepain wrote:
> > On Friday 09 November 2007 15:20:04 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
> >> Hi Stephane,
> >>
> >> stephane lepain wrote:
> >>> Hi Guys,
> >>>
> >>> Squid did not respond when I restarted my PC. I don't have any error
> >>> message in /etc/squid/squid.out. It seems that squid is not even
> >>> registering. Since I don't have an error message, I can't sort this
> >>> out. I also tried a restart, stop and start but nothing would do.
> >>> /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and then ./squid restart.
> >>> Anyone has any thought on this?
> >>
> >> Which OS and Squid version are you running? What do you have for the
> >> following directive in your squid.conf:
> >>
> >> cache_log
> >>
> >> If you had tried to restart Squid from /etc/rc.d/init.d and if Squid
> >> failed to load, then Squid will report errors in cache.log unless you
> >> have configured Squid not to generate a cache.log file!
> >>
> >>
> >> By the way, just in case, check your hard drive disk space usage.
> >>
> >> If nothing helps, check where the Squid binary is located from your
> >> startup script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/squid.
> >>
> >> Go to the directory where the Squid binary is residing and run:
> >>
> >> ./squid -NCd1
> >>
> >>
> >> You will see the errors why your Squid is not starting or not responding
> >> in the 1st place.
> >>
> >> Thanking you ...
> >>
> >>> Cheers to all of you
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I now have got an error message saying "could not determine fully
> > qualified host name. set visible host name" . I cant seem to get around
> > this. I would appreciate a hand.
> >
> > Cheers to all
>
> Publicly visible host needs a FQDN assigned and rDNS configured. All the
> networking software on your host will be having problems with this.
>
> Assuming you are on a unice;
> /etc/hostname should contains a FQDN
>
> OR in the rare event that you CANT do that;
>
> it must contain a valid host name (ie 'proxy') and /etc/resolv.conf
> must contain a domain entry that combines to form a FQDN <host>.<domain>
> with rDNS that resolves to an IP asigned to that machine.
>
>
> As a hack-around just for squid there is the visible_hostname directive,
> although this will go nowhere to fixing the DNS/rDNS problems at the
> cause of the message.
>
> Amos

Though that is kind of weird because I didn't have that problem before. I have
switched all my server from Mandriva to Ubuntu Server version. I think that
could be the problem!! I am now using SQUID 2.6 stable 14 as well. Should I
run the latest version?

-- 
Cordialement, Best Regards
stephane lepain