Re: [squid-users] request for help

Hi Amos,

Just to update you, I didnot only block the port 5222 and 5223, I also created a
cache_peer_access dummy_host talk, then acl talk dstdomain .talk.google.com .talkx.l.google.com .talkgadget.google.com .talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout www.google.com/talk/start.html and finally never_direct allow talk. I am expecting that talk cannot do any harm in this case. I am checking the performance and it seems it is working smooth right now. Below is the latest cache.log.

[root_at_cproxybkup ~]# tail -f /var/log/squid/cache.log
2009/01/19 11:29:27| always_direct = 0
2009/01/19 11:29:27| never_direct = 1
2009/01/19 11:29:27| timedout = 0
2009/01/19 11:29:48| httpReadReply: Excess data from "POST http://gc8.meebo.org/mm?1232354121171894"
2009/01/19 11:30:34| Failed to select source for 'http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout'
2009/01/19 11:30:34| always_direct = 0
2009/01/19 11:30:34| never_direct = 1
2009/01/19 11:30:34| timedout = 0
2009/01/19 11:30:54| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname '%3ca%20href=http'
2009/01/19 11:31:06| httpReadReply: Excess data from "GET http://ahl-althog.com/vb/cron.php?rand=31296"
2009/01/19 11:31:30| httpReadReply: Excess data from "GET http://98.136.60.161/tbm.php?_u=http%3a%2f%2flaunch.groups.yahoo.com%2fgroup%2fLPRST%2f%3fv%3d1%26t%3dsearch%26ch%3dweb%26pub%3dgroups%26sec%3dgroup%26slk%3d10&intl=us&dnst=209.73.164.118&dnsr=79.98.184.18&ns=&t=5880161"

regards,

Wennie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
To: "Wennie V. Lagmay" <wlagmay_at_yanbulink.net>
Cc: "squid-users" <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 12:57:29 AM (GMT+0300) Asia/Kuwait
Subject: Re: [squid-users] request for help

Wennie V. Lagmay wrote:
> Hi Amos,
>
> I have check at least 10 subscriber and we were able to talk to at least 3 of them, they are all using Google talk. My solution is to block google talk (port# tcp 5222, 5223) and will check what will happen. if this will work I will create another proxy and permit google talk to that proxy just to minimized the head each (at least google talker are the only one affected as long as this problem is there). For now this is the only solution I can do, any suggestions?
>

Okay. Looks like a bug in one or the other. If you can provide trace of
the request sent by GoogleTalk as an 'enhancement' bug, we maybe able to
come up with a hack for Squid to handle it.

And yelling at google is a option at this point now that its narrowed to
their software.

Amos

> Thanks and regards,
>
> Wennie
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amos Jeffries" <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
> To: "Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães" <leolistas_at_solutti.com.br>
> Cc: "squid-users" <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 2:43:04 PM (GMT+0300) Asia/Kuwait
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] request for help
>
> Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote:
>> just as a hint .......... i'm tired of seeing Skype and Google Talk
>> spewing bad things to squid. At least in my cases, i have never seen
>> squid crashing because of that. The only bad thing is that cache.log
>> gets full of binary trash .......
>
> If your squid is old 2008 or before ;). The newer ones have fixed the
> binary problem at least.
>
> See the "__" bits of Wennie's trace, which were once those binary 'crash
> the log viewer' types we all hate so much. :)
>
> Amos
>
>>
>> Wennie V. Lagmay escreveu:
>>> Thank you very much,
>>>
>>> We will try to locate at least one subscriber and we will check. I
>>> will report back as soon as we have the information to help others
>>> (This problem kills 2 of my squid proxy)
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> wennie
>>>
>
>

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