Re: [squid-users] 2.5 and ftp problems

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 10:31, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Hi all,
> Since moving to 2.5 I have had a two problems, the first was that pages that
> required logins could not be fetched, this was solved with and "never_direct
> allow troubles", where the acl for "troubles' defines a file with the
> problem url's.

If you don't allow direct access from the squid box, you should use
never_direct allow all

> The second problem I am ahving is to do with ftp downloads, especially today
> from ftp.techrepublic.com. I am getting time outs and DNS errors when I try
> to download a file.
>
> Our ISP has a Squid proxy on our firewall that we use as a parent it is 2.3,

They should upgrade. 2.3 is slow and has *known* security problems. At a
minimum they should run 2.4 stable 7.

> if I bypass my Squid and go direct to theirs it works fine, so the problem
> seems to be inmy config. I ahve tried every combination of never_direct and
> always_direct with this specific site to no avail. I have:

Are you allowed direct access to the web and ftp? If not, use
never_direct allow all. If you are allowed direct access, then you
should check that it works by ftping directly from your squid box.

You can also up the debug levels to show what squid is doing - at a
guess it is trying direct ftp access and that is the problem.

Finally, if you want some on-site-commercial support, I live in Sydney
:}.

Rob