Online Games

I am running squid 2.2.stable5 on a Linux RedHat 6.0 machine. I am running
squid as a transparent web cache to help conserve bandwidth on our Internet
Connection. We have run into a problem that we can't find an answer for.
We have several customers that love their games. We have not been
successful in configuring squid to allow people to use games like Fighter
Ace from MSN's zone.com or an e-mail game from Hasbro, scrabble. Has anyone
run into this problem before? How do we solve it?

A second problem that we have encountered is users trying to browse to
http://www.iwon.com. In IE5.0 and earlier the browser locks up and must be
aborted on the client machine. Netscape 4.6 and earlier browsers also lock
up. However, Netscape 4.7 handles the page request without a problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is our squid.conf file.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

cache_mem 64 MB
cache_dir /spool1 2000 128 256
cache_dir /spool2 2000 128 256
cache_dir /spool3 2000 128 256
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl SSL_ports port 443 563
acl Safe_ports port 80 21 443 563 70 210 1025-65535
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
http_port 3128
httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80
httpd_accel_with_proxy on
http_access allow manager all
#http_access deny manager
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
# http_access deny all
http_access allow all
icp_access allow all
miss_access allow all
dns_nameservers 206.160.236.61
cache_mgr kent@claussen.com
cache_effective_user nobody
cache_effective_group nobody
visible_hostname cache1.bnin.net
cachemgr_passwd cache1 all
# acl snmppublic snmp_community publicsquid
# snmp_access allow all
logfile_rotate 31
acl WEHOST dst 206.160.236.0/24
acl WEHOST dst 208.15.75.0/24
acl WEHOST dst 208.15.76.0/24
acl WEHOST dst 208.15.77.0/24
acl WEHOST dst 208.15.182.0/24
acl WEHOST dst 209.211.225.0/24
no_cache deny WEHOST
httpd_accel_uses_host_header on

Thanks in advance for your help.

Brent Cummings
Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 13:08:09 MST