FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname. Please set 'visible_hostname'

[Paul Howarth]

Joeffrey Betita wrote:
> hi i was configuring squid-2.5.STABLE5-4.fc2 /usr/sbin/squid -z after typing
> this command. an error message came up. below is the error message.
> 
> FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname.  Please set
> 'visible_hostname'

Edit /etc/squid/squid.conf and set the visible_hostname parameter to the full 
hostname of your cache (e.g. squid.example.com).

Paul.