What nobody has suggested yet is to put a packet sniffer on the wire to (1)
confirm that this is actually squid and (2) if it is (or even isn't) what
exactly is going on. We don't know what hosts are involved, we're just
figuring that it's squid. Unless changes are made, we don't call this
investigation, it's assumption (insert wise-cracks) ;).
-Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon White [mailto:simon@mtds.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 10:25 AM
> To: MacDermat
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Please! Please! Someone Answer, Squid is
> killing Me
>
>
> What is your incoming like? Have you seen increases in
> incoming? Maybe your
> squid is an open proxy and someone has hijacked it?
>
> On 03-Mar-02 at 21:00, MacDermat's inspired musing was thus :
> > Hello
> >
> > I am sorry for the title but I have been a member since 40
> days ago and I
> > have asked this question serveral times but no one has
> bothered himself to
> > reply.
> >
> > I have installed squid 2.4 and 2.3 (last releases) for a
> small ISP. It works
> > properly but suddenly it starts eating all the available
> bandwidth (1MB/s)
> > while users use only 100Kb/s and this situation lasts for
> about 15-45
> > minutes. I am sure this is not normal. Users are connected
> to us through 56K
> > modems. During this situation no one can receive more than
> 0.4Kbit/s.
> >
> > ISP calls me every time (last night at 2AM) and has
> destroyed my everyday
> > life.
> >
> > I have disconnected all windows machines and everything I
> could do to find
> > the source which uses this bandwidth. Finally I am sure
> (%99) that squid
> > itself is responsible.
> >
> > Anyone has seen such a thing. Any comments?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mac
> >
> >
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