[squid-users] Windows Update and Microsoft Update Success!

For everyone out there looking for the way to get Windows Update and
Microsoft update to work through their Squid caches, here is the recipe I
found to work for me.

First create a text file named windowsupdate.txt in your squid configuration
directory.
Place these entries in it:

windowsupdate.microsoft.com
update.microsoft.com
activex.microsoft.com
download.windowsupdate.com
www.download.windowsupdate.com
codecs.microsoft.com
stats.updates.microsoft.com
c.microsoft.com

Then edit your squid.conf file.
Create a new acl like:

acl WindowsUpdate dstdomain -i "/usr/local/etc/squid/windowsupdate.txt"

Prevent caching these updates with this line:

no_cache deny WindowsUpdate

Make sure everyone on your squid box can get to these sites with this line:

http_access allow WindowsUpdate

After doing these things do a "squid -k reconfigure"

Windows Update and Microsoft Update should be working just fine now through
your cache, keeping your Windows boxes up to date.

Brian E. Conklin, MCP+I, MCSE
Director of Information Services
Mason General Hospital
PO Box 1668, Shelton, WA 98584
http://www.masongeneral.com

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Mason General Hospital
901 Mt. View Drive
PO Box 1668
Shelton, WA 98584
http://www.masongeneral.com
(360) 426-1611
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Received on Fri Sep 09 2005 - 15:45:29 MDT