While starting Squid on "cmd" it gives a "System error 1067 has occurred"

Question

I am trying to use Squid's (its 2.7STABLE8 version) reverse proxy service on Windows 7. When I try to start squid from "cmd" (as administrator) I get an error message such as;

"The Squid service could not be started

A system error has occurred

System error 1067 has occurred message

The process terminated unexpectedly"

To solve it I tried:

• setting "http_port" to 80 and 8080

• disabling user account control settings.

• and followed the instructions on this website: Configuring a Basic Reverse Proxy in Squid on Windows

However, none of the solutions worked. Therefore if there is any other solution you might know it would be great.

Thanks

Solution

I checked my cache.log file, and it was reporting to;

"FATAL: ipcache_init: DNS name lookup tests failed"

Therefore, in the squid.conf file I set my dns_testname to;

"dns_testnames 0.0.0.0"

and it solved my problem.