squid - browsing hostname issue 1

[cdtech9198]

Hello all. New to the forum and linux. I have setup squid proxy using some website tutorials online. Everything is working fairly well.

One strange issue I seem to have come across is when I enter any hostname on my domain in the browser. For example

http://webserver

rather then

http://webserver.mydomainname.local

I can not figure out for the life of me why this is happening. I can ping hostname "webserver" and "webserver.mydomain.local" just fine for the server hosting squid.

Below is the error message I receive. any insight would be great. Thanks guy.

The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to retrieve the URL: [URL unfurl="true"]http://webserver/test.php[/URL] 

The following error was encountered: 

Unable to determine IP address from host name for addressbook 
The dnsserver returned: 

Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query. 
This means that: 

 The cache was not able to resolve the hostname presented in the URL. 
 Check if the address is correct. 

Your cache administrator is root. 



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Generated Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:02:53 GMT by Squid.mydomainname.local (squid/2.6.STABLE17)

 

[cdtech9198]

I have figured this out. In the squid.conf you can either append a domain name or turn on this dns_defnames

append_domain mydomainname.net
or
dns_defname on