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From: Carey Nairn <cpn@ccd.tas.gov.au>
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On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Carey Nairn wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We just upgraded a 2.1.6 box to 2.2.2-RELEASE and now have problems
> running squid due to DNS failures.  This is pretty wierd since DNS works
> fine using nslookup etc.  The resolv.conf, host.conf, etc. is exactly the
> same as our old ones, pointing to our DNS server.
> 
> Recompiling squid under 2.2.2 didn't do any good either.
> 
> This is using squid-1.1.14 and squid-1.1.16.
> 
> any thoughts?
> 


To answer my own question :)

looks like the problem was in the XTRA_LIBS variable in the Makefile.
Once I removed -lresolv from the list and recompiled, it started working
fine.

Hope this helps others who get caught...


cheers,
Carey Nairn