Re: [squid-users] Squid behind another proxy - help with simple config

Daniel Iversen wrote:
> Hi there..
>
> I have a seemingly simple requirement that I can't get working in
> Squid (2.7 on Windows), and that is to be able to use a a Squid setup
> as a proxy server (with aggressive caching) behind another closed-off
> corporate proxy server (not squid necessarily) for all Internet HTTP
> access going out.
>
> So basically, I have the following config in squid.conf;
>
> cache_peer parent <IP or hostname of my proxy server> 8080 0 no-query default

If thats not a typo ... try:
   cache_peer IP-address parent 8080 0 no-query default

> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
> http_access allow all
> never_direct allow all
>
> (I used to have the recommended and more secure "http_access"
> parameters but reverted to the above for testing but it made no
> difference)
>
> I am always getting errors like this;
>
> 2010/01/13 15:20:24| Failed to select source for 'http://www.google.com.au/'
> 2010/01/13 15:20:24| always_direct = 0
> 2010/01/13 15:20:24| never_direct = 1
> 2010/01/13 15:20:24| timedout = 0
>
> Its to be noted that in my corporate environment I have to go through
> this external proxy to get internet access and I can't even ping
> servers from my local machine and probably have limited DNS access
> too. So really my Squid server needs to forward all details as-is to
> the external proxy but it does not work.
>
> I have also tried experimenting with the following command line
> arguments when starting squid " -DY -d 4 -X " but to no avail?
>
> Am I crazy here? Should this not be a simple setup? Any ideas why this
> could be? Anyone has a working Squid config for something like this
> that they could share?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help..
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel

Amos

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