[squid-users] Re: Problems connecting to SQUID

Florian Lindner wrote:

> I've just downloaded and installed the lates SQUID Version, using Gentoo
> emerge. My command line show this output

> squid -NCd1

> 2004/09/18 19:00:37| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 65000,
> FD 9.

[remainder of debug output snipped]

> But trying to connect (also trying to use just plain telnet) on port
> 65000 fails.

Check to see if any local firewall is blocking access to port 65000. Also,
you are running Squid in debug mode - are you leaving it running in your
terminal's foreground while you test?

> My squid.conf: (prototype)

> cache_access_log none
> auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/pam_auth
> http_access allow all

[remainder of squid.conf snipped]

> Since windows and also Firefox/Thunderbird do dnot support proxy
> authentication (or am I wrong?) I have to allow access from all.

You are wrong - IE, FireFox, Opera, and others support proxy authentication
(provided they are configured to use a proxy).

> Is that squid.conf so far doing what I want?

If what you want is "anyone who can establish a TCP connection to my proxy
can use it, without any access logging", then yes.

> Improvements?

You could utilize the authentication support you configured. See the
Authentication FAQ for more information:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-23.html

You will also want to use the cache_access_log and cache_log settings to
specify basic log files for Squid, then run Squid normally by simply
running "squid", rather than running it in the foreground.

Adam
Received on Sat Sep 18 2004 - 11:48:47 MDT