I wonder if this is what I'm now seeing on Oneiric; I run a squid on my desktop so that it and my vms and my laptop share apt-get update's/upgrades. SInce somewhere in Oneiric dev cycle I'm having to restart squid before it starts responding. Squid's access log has: 1318764515.529 1 192.168.66.25 TCP_REFRESH_FAIL_HIT/200 7612 GET http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/oneiric/Release - DIRECT/ddebs.ubuntu.com text/plain .... 1318764516.476 0 192.168.66.25 TCP_MISS/504 1632 GET http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/dists/oneiric/main/i18n/Index - DIRECT/ddebs.ubuntu.com text/html and similar cache.log has: 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Starting Squid Cache version 2.7.STABLE9 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu... 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Process ID 1369 2011/10/16 12:42:53| With 1024 file descriptors available 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Using epoll for the IO loop 2011/10/16 12:42:53| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 48544, FD 6 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Warning: Could not find any nameservers. Trying to use localhost 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Please check your /etc/resolv.conf file 2011/10/16 12:42:53| or use the 'dns_nameservers' option in squid.conf. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| User-Agent logging is disabled. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Referer logging is disabled. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| logfileOpen: opening log /var/log/squid/access.log 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 11 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Swap maxSize 2097152 + 8192 KB, estimated 161949 objects 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Target number of buckets: 8097 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Using 8192 Store buckets 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Max Mem size: 8192 KB 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Max Swap size: 2097152 KB 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Local cache digest enabled; rebuild/rewrite every 3600/3600 sec 2011/10/16 12:42:53| logfileOpen: opening log /var/log/squid/store.log 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid (CLEAN) 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Using Least Load store dir selection 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Loaded Icons. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Accepting proxy HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, FD 13. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 14. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| HTCP Disabled. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| WCCP Disabled. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Ready to serve requests. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Done reading /var/spool/squid swaplog (2883 entries) 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Finished rebuilding storage from disk. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| 2883 Entries scanned 2011/10/16 12:42:53| 0 Invalid entries. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| 0 With invalid flags. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| 2883 Objects loaded. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| 0 Objects expired. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| 0 Objects cancelled. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| 0 Duplicate URLs purged. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided. 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Took 0.5 seconds (5340.7 objects/sec). 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Beginning Validation Procedure 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Completed Validation Procedure 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Validated 2883 Entries 2011/10/16 12:42:53| store_swap_size = 1886660k 2011/10/16 12:42:54| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects Note the: 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Warning: Could not find any nameservers. Trying to use localhost 2011/10/16 12:42:53| Please check your /etc/resolv.conf file 2011/10/16 12:42:53| or use the 'dns_nameservers' option in squid.conf. (If this is breaking it then why is this a wishlist?) Dave