Did as you suggested and it does stop the warning message. As you said there was already an acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 line in the squid.cond file. However, even before I had changed that had started getting very slow response from mainly secure sites, but also some others. When I looked in the cache.log see the following: 2005/04/19 13:32:23| always_direct = 0 2005/04/19 13:32:23| never_direct = 1 2005/04/19 13:32:23| timedout = 0 Having the always_direct and the never_direct seem to contradict each other? Neil. -----Original Message----- From: Neil A. Hillard [mailto:hillardn@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 19 April 2005 13:19 To: Neil Loffhagen Cc: Kashif Ali Bukhari; squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [squid-users] Secure site access blocked? Neil Loffhagen wrote: >> From: Kashif Ali Bukhari [mailto:kbukhari@xxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: 19 April 2005 10:24 >> To: Neil Loffhagen >> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Secure site access blocked? >> >> it means u are working behind a firewall / blocking 443 port use >> cacge peer like >> >> cache_peer www-cache.server.co.uk parent 80 0 default no-query >> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 >> never_direct allow all > Thanks, that worked okay. But now I get the following on staring > Squid: > > Shutting down WWW-proxy squid 2005/04/19 10:41:32| WARNING: > '0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0' is a subnetwork of '0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0' > 2005/04/19 10:41:32| WARNING: because of this '0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0' is > ignored to keep splay tree searching predictable > 2005/04/19 10:41:32| WARNING: You should probably remove > '0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0' from the ACL named 'all' > > This seems to mean I should not have the acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 > line? > > Could I put our local LAN IP range there or would that not be correct? I reckon that you already have the 'all' ACL already declared (it's part of the stock .conf file so you're duplicating an entry which squid isn't happy about. Remove the following line: acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 that you just added and fingers crossed. HTH, Neil. -- Neil Hillard hillardn@xxxxxxxxx Westland Helicopters Ltd. http://www.whl.co.uk/ Disclaimer: This message does not necessarily reflect the views of Westland Helicopters Ltd. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.