Re: [squid-users] how to avoid external acl caching ? external_acl_cache_add

Julien P. wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I am trying to setup a very specific ACL using an external acl program
> written in C.
>
> I looked almost everywhere and I wasn't able to find anything about that ...
>
> This is the output that I get when I try to access a website that I
> didn't try to access before:
>
> 2009/04/25 20:51:59.405| externalAclLookup: will wait for the result
> of '67.188.224.11 www.something.com' in 'ExternalisBad'
> (ch=0x85ab068).
> 2009/04/25 20:51:59.407| helperHandleRead: 4 bytes from ExternalisBad #1
> 2009/04/25 20:51:59.407| helperHandleRead: 'ERR
> '
> 2009/04/25 20:51:59.407| helperHandleRead: end of reply found
> 2009/04/25 20:51:59.407| externalAclHandleReply: reply="ERR"
> 2009/04/25 20:51:59.407| external_acl_cache_add: Adding '67.188.224.11
> www.something.com' = 0
>
> I believe that squid is caching all my external_acls. Now if I modify
> my rules in order to Get an OK result with the same params the only
> thing that shows up is:
>
> 2009/04/25 20:52:59.307| aclMatchExternal: acl="ExternalisBad"
> 2009/04/25 20:52:59.307| aclMatchExternal: ExternalisBad = 0
>
> and access is still denied ...
>
> Does anyone know how to remove the external_acl_cache Feature?
>
> And complementary question:
> My debug options is actually: debug_options ALL,1 82,9 84,9
> As I get a lot of simultaneous requests everytime that I access a
> website, I'd like to know if someone knows how to tune the debug_level
> to hide these two lines:
> 2009/04/25 20:52:59.307| aclMatchExternal: acl="ExternalisBad"
> 2009/04/25 20:52:59.307| aclMatchExternal: ExternalisBad = 0
>
> Thank you all for your help!!

Configure a ttl in your squid.conf. The default is 1 hour.

   http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/external_acl_type/

Amos

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