[KLUG Members] Re: DNS and IPCop

[Randall Perry]

At 08:58 AM 6/6/2003, you wrote:
>I think Adam's assertion is right on the money with this. You've GOT to have 
>DNS working at the client. 
Actually, that isn't the case.
When I first took over IT at my present appointment they were running WinNT SBS 4.5.  The were using Microsoft Proxy server without ANY default gw or DNS settings on the client.  Their web browsers just have to be set to the proxy server and it takes care of the rest.

I have since migrated the setup to a Linux box with squid and more recently (3 months ago) to an IPCop box with squid.
Just to be certain I wasn't imagining the whole thing, I just reconfigured my own work notebook to have a static address and subnet mask WITH NO default gateway or DNS.
I go into mozilla and google doesn't come up.  Go to Edit-preferences and enter the internal address of the IPCop box with port 800 as proxy.
Immediately google comes up.

So NO you do not need DNS info at the client, because that is what a proxy does (besides just caching pages).  That proxy server, though, has to know how to get places and needs an appropriate DNS and routing info.

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      Randall Perry
          Senior Consultant/Instructor
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      Domain Logic Technology Solutions
          http://www.domain-logic.com
          Goshen, IN 46526
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