Re: [squid-users] TCP_MISS/504 when accesing www.citibank.com

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 1:02 a.m., feralert wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Amos Jeffries<squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/11/2011 4:16 a.m., feralert wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As a workaround (thanks to Radoslaw, who came up with the idea) I have
>>>> done this:
>>>>
>>>> I added an entry for www.citibank.com pointing to the working server
>>>> ip into /etc/hosts, then added "hosts_file /etc/hosts" into
>>>> squid.conf.
>>>>
>>>> It works for the time being, but is not a final solution.
>>>
>>> NP: You should not have had to mark /etc/hosts in squid.conf (one less
>>> place
>>> to undo later), unless the file is in a strange location.
>>
>> I'm not sure if I undestand your tip.
>> Do you mean that I can get rid of "/etc/hosts" argument to the
>> "hosts_file" directive because that is actually the default setting
>> for "hosts_file"?, or you mean that I can get rid of the whole
>> directive since squid already takes into account the entries in
>> /etc/hosts by default?
>
> Yes.
>
> You should not need the whole line because it is the default value.
>
> Removing just the value will tell Squid *not* to use the hosts file at all
> (or kill Squid with a bungled config, one or the other).
>
>
> Amos
>

Thank you Amos for the explanation and your help.

From last Friday both servers pointing to www.citibank.com are
answering HTTP 1.0 petitions as they should, and therefore the problem
is gone. This confirms it wasn't a squid 2.7 issue but citibank's,
although I haven't got confirmation from them because they didn't care
to answer my emails.

Cheers,
Fred.
Received on Mon Nov 14 2011 - 11:34:51 MST