You are getting a "access denied" because in the squid.conf of your acept-2 machine, you need the lines: acl acept2 src 192.168.1.31/32 http_access accept acept2 In between these lines: acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 http_access allow localhosts Final config would be: acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl acept2 src 192.168.1.31/32 http_access allow acept2 http_access allow localhost http_access deny all As for where squid pulls the ip address of the machine, I think in the access.log it actually pulls the ip address of the requesting machine, and only does a lookup if you want to see hostnames in your log file, rather than ip addresses. You should probably tell us how you are initiating these connections to the proxy, and if you are using any type of redirection like iptables or the sorts. Brian -----Original Message----- From: Maria Dolores [mailto:mshk@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:40 AM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: access denied with squid-3.0 Greetings, I have installed squid-3.0 with squidGuard-1.2.0 in two different linux systems, the configuration of squid in both is identical. In one of them squid works properly, in the other I obtain the message 'ERROR ... Access denied' when I try to access to the web through the proxy. Neither error message is showed in the squid logs in the second system, the only difference I have observed is at the access.log file: In the first system the messages in this file are: 113... 470 127.0.0.1 TCP_REFRESH_MISS /.... In the second system instead of 127.0.0.1 is showed the public IP of the host: 113... 0 192.168.1.31 TCP_DENIED /403 .... The file /etc/hosts in the first machine (acept) has the aspect: 127.0.0.1 acept localhost In the second machine (acept-2) this line was: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost acept-2 I have changed this line for: 127.0.0.1 acept-2 localhost However the messages in access.log continue showing the public IP and the problem persists. What could this error be due to? Where does squid obtain the IP of the machine? The squid.conf file's content in both systems is: http_port 3128 transparent hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl all src 0/0 no_cache deny all cache_dir null /tmp access_log /usr/squid/var/logs/access.log cache_log /usr/squid/var/logs/cache.log cache_store_log /usr/squid/var/logs/store.log hosts_file /etc/hosts redirect_program /usr/squidGuard/bin/squidGuard -c /usr/squid/etc/squidGuard.conf redirect_children 4 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher:1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 http_access allow localhosts http_access deny all http_reply_access allow all icp_access allow all cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid visible_hostname acept coredump_dir /usr/squid/var/cache Thanks Maria D.