Hi Aaron The squid is not running as a transperent proxy, and we have manually set the proxy settings in I-Explore. It works though, but takes 30min - 1hour or so to connect. And forever to download the updates. :( > Hi Lasse > > It could be related to the problem I'm having, depending on how your proxy > it set up. I'm trying to build a box to manage the Quarantine network in > our environment and the Windows Update site hangs/fails for me as well. > The > problem in my case is that Squid is a transparent proxy, and when you > click > on either the "Custom" or "Express" options, it briefly requires an SSL > connection to download.windowsupdate.com - since Squid doesn't seem to > have > a way to do that in transparent mode, it fails. > > If I set IE to use Squid as a proxy directly, it'll work. Have you tried > setting the proxy settings directly in IE yet? > > Aaron > > Lasse Mørk wrote: >> Is there anyway to get around this issue? >> >> It just stalls now where it looks for latest updates. >> Maybe without caching the windows update files? >> >> I am getting kinda desperate! >> >> >> >>>Hmm.. Dosn't seem to help :( >>> >>>It still lacks and run terrible slow. >>> >>> >>>>On 8/11/05, Lasse Mørk <debian@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hey all >>>>> >>>>>squid 2.5.9-10 running debian. >>>>> >>>>>Does anyone knows what to do, when windows update hangs ? >>>>>Sometime it just stalls, but now and then it works, although it is got >>>>>damn slow :( >>>>> >>>>>Including that, it prompts for user and passwords just before it >>>>> checks >>>>>for updates, I belive it is? >>>>> >>>>>Any solution to this? The best thing would be if it was possible to >>>>>cache >>>>>the updates, but it worst case I might have to remove the windows >>>>>update >>>>>site, from the proxy list. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.54 >>>> >>>> M. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- > > Aaron McDonnell > Network Administrator > Network Operations Centre > University of Western Ontario > Tel: 519-661-2111 ext. 86558 >
