Re: [squid-users] Problem with squid and dansguardian viewing streaming videos

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:30:15 -0700, Darren <mister.raven_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>HTTP, SHOUTcast/ICY or RTSP streams?
>
> They use flash to stream, so I am assuming it will either be http or
rtmp.
>
>>
>> Your Squid config file as posted belies your claim of using DG. You
both
>> do NAT interception directly into Squid (ie bypassing DG at the
firewall)
>> and use always_direct to prevent any cache_peers (ie a DG sitting
behind
>> Squid) being used.
>>
>
>> Either you are receiving traffic from a NAT firewall or from
>> DansGuardian.
>> Which is it?
>>
>
>
> I use dansguardian. Traffic gets transparently routed by a firewall
> to dansguardian on port 8080, which then sends traffic to squid on
> port 3128.
>
>
> I will remove the transparent directive from squid and see if that
> affects any changes.

It will save squid attempting and failing to perform NAT lookups since NAT
is not involved in the particular DG->Squid link.

There are likely equivalent setting in DG that need to be set correctly to
pull the client and destination info out of NAT for use there.

Amos
Received on Wed Sep 01 2010 - 23:33:10 MDT