Re: [squid-users] Apt-get Issue through squid

Hi Again,
I do appreciate that, but some people are very restricted time wise
The way it looks I could easily spend a whole year tweaking it before I
could get everything working or maybe more :-)

Anyway, Thank you all for your suggestions and help
Regards
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac" <lscarneiro_at_veltrac.com.br>
To: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Apt-get Issue through squid

> Also, you can educate your users so they know that your network has a
> proxy and to setup the proxy on the apps is a necessary step to get to
> work. Proxy is not a 'out-of-the-earth' thing now days and most of the
> users (on a enterprise network, at least) will be able to understand this.
>
>
> Adam_at_Gmail wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> Thanks for your reply, I was merely asking if anyone has or had the same
>> problem before, or anyone who might have a solution, of course
>> If I stop squid now and disable it reconfigure my system to what it was
>> before of course I will get the updates and the access to the internet
>> but now any application or programme I want to run I have to find out
>> where it is where it's going etc..
>>
>> It looks as if I need to tweak for every single task,. of every single
>> application of every single client.
>>
>> Yes I have followed the configuration where the whole internet goes
>> through a proxy, when faced with a problem like this can you
>> imagine how many programmes and apps are there? If I have to tweak each
>> and everyone of them by hand and how many clients I have and so on
>> So I can spend the rest of my life fixing things.
>>
>> Anyway thanks for your reply
>> Regards
>> Adam
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jakob Curdes" <jc_at_info-systems.de>
>> To: "Adam_at_Gmail" <adbasque_at_googlemail.com>
>> Cc: <squid-users_at_squid-cache.org>
>> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 7:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Apt-get Issue through squid
>>
>>
>>> Adam_at_Gmail schrieb:
>>>> Hello Everybody!
>>>>
>>>> I have a question if you don't mind or if anyone has a solution to this
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to download some packages with apt-get on one of my Ubuntu
>>>> clients
>>>> All of the links fail, which means they are blocked by Squid, When I
>>>> try the same thing
>>>> on the Squid machine itself which is also the router I get all the
>>>> updates
>>> Please do not jump to assumptions without having checked the facts.
>>> "All of the links fail, which means they are blocked by Squid" is the
>>> least likely cause.
>>> You can verify that easily by looking at the squid access log, without
>>> going the deviation via the mailing list.
>>>
>>> MY assumption is:
>>> - The firewall on the router allows direct internet access
>>> - so it is clear that apt-get on the firewall can get the updates
>>> [without using squid at all]
>>> - apt-get, being a unix-style command line tool, does not know or
>>> respect the browser settings for proxies
>>> - you did not set a http_proxy/ftp_proxy variable in the shell calling
>>> apt-get nor did you configure a proxy in apt.conf
>>> - As you do not allow direct internet access (or maybe even do not have
>>> a gateway set on the client, which would be perfectly OK), apt-get tries
>>> to resolve the name (may succeed depending on setup) an then tries to
>>> download from the origin server
>>> (which you prohibit, so it fails also).
>>>
>>> It is very unlikely with any squid configuration near the defaults (eg.
>>> without authentication or complex header manipulation)
>>> that the proxy blocks requests from a particular machine depending on
>>> the "browser" used.
>>>
>>> Conclusion: 99% not a squid issue. You might ask on the ubuntu mailing
>>> lists for help if Google does not give you enough explanation how to use
>>> apt-get with a proxy.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Jakob Curdes
>>
>>
Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 19:07:42 MDT