Hello all

I have a VM with Pound 2.3.2 running under Gentoo. When I does the
development of the VM, it is running on my local machine and it does not
have access to the network. In this case, I'm unable to start Pound. It
is trying to startup, but it terminate with the message "Failed to
start". If I start the VM in the target network, Pound will startup
fine.

My config is:

User            "nobody"
Group           "nobody"
LogLevel        4
Alive           30

ListenHTTPS
  Address nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
  Port 443
  xHTTP 3
  AddHeader "Front-End-Https: on"
  Cert "/etc/pound/nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn.pem"
  VerifyList "/etc/pound/cacert.pem"
End
Service
  Url ".*/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync.*"
  BackEnd
    Address intern.domain.tld
    Port 80
  End
End
Service
  Url ".*"
  HeadRequire "Host:.*extern.domain.tld.*"
  BackEnd
    Address intern.domain.tld
    Port 80
  End
End

Is there a way to force Pound to start even it has currently no
connection to the external network ?

Sincerly
Andreas

>   BackEnd[...]

Add hosts file entries for intern.domain.tld.  Pound fails when it can't 
convert the hostnames into IPs.

Alternatively, use IP addresses in your conf file.

Regards,[...]