Re: [squid-users] Windows update hangs

Hi Aaron
The squid is not running as a transperent proxy, and we have manually set
the proxy settings in I-Explore.

It works though, but takes 30min - 1hour or so to connect. And forever to
download the updates. :(

> Hi Lasse
>
> It could be related to the problem I'm having, depending on how your proxy
> it set up. I'm trying to build a box to manage the Quarantine network in
> our environment and the Windows Update site hangs/fails for me as well.
> The
> problem in my case is that Squid is a transparent proxy, and when you
> click
> on either the "Custom" or "Express" options, it briefly requires an SSL
> connection to download.windowsupdate.com - since Squid doesn't seem to
> have
> a way to do that in transparent mode, it fails.
>
> If I set IE to use Squid as a proxy directly, it'll work. Have you tried
> setting the proxy settings directly in IE yet?
>
> Aaron
>
> Lasse Mørk wrote:
>> Is there anyway to get around this issue?
>>
>> It just stalls now where it looks for latest updates.
>> Maybe without caching the windows update files?
>>
>> I am getting kinda desperate!
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hmm.. Dosn't seem to help :(
>>>
>>>It still lacks and run terrible slow.
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 8/11/05, Lasse Mørk <debian@cyrix.dk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hey all
>>>>>
>>>>>squid 2.5.9-10 running debian.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone knows what to do, when windows update hangs ?
>>>>>Sometime it just stalls, but now and then it works, although it is got
>>>>>damn slow :(
>>>>>
>>>>>Including that, it prompts for user and passwords just before it
>>>>> checks
>>>>>for updates, I belive it is?
>>>>>
>>>>>Any solution to this? The best thing would be if it was possible to
>>>>>cache
>>>>>the updates, but it worst case I might have to remove the windows
>>>>>update
>>>>>site, from the proxy list.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.54
>>>>
>>>> M.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Aaron McDonnell
> Network Administrator
> Network Operations Centre
> University of Western Ontario
> Tel: 519-661-2111 ext. 86558
>
Received on Thu Aug 11 2005 - 07:19:14 MDT