> irst off, I'm new at this and I'm not a sysadmin so I may have > overlooked/not understood how to do this based on the > squid.confdocumentation. > > I'm on a corporate network behind a proxy that requires > authentication, i'm using squid so that I don't have to go throught > the head ache of configuring the authorization for each app. > > I've done the following (with my appropriate domain of course) > acl local-servers dstdomain .foo.net > acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 > never_direct deny local-servers > never_direct allow all > > And everything works great, however when I try to use yum it tries to go > direct and not through the parent. Here are some entries from access.log: > > 1136475166.948 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_HIT/200 1454 GET > http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml - NONE/- > application/xml > 1136474756.414 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_HIT/200 1454 GET > http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml - NONE/- > application/xml > 1136474775.362 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_HIT/200 1315 GET > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml > - NONE/- text/xml > 1136474846.545 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_HIT/200 1454 GET > http://apt.sw.be/fedora/4/en/i386/dag/repodata/repomd.xml - NONE/- > application/xml > 1136474964.462 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_HIT/200 1505 GET > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/repodata/ > repomd.xml > - NONE/- text/xml > 1136475035.703 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_HIT/200 1505 GET > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml > - NONE/- text/xml > These are hits. SQUID doesn´t need to contact the parent or the remote weberver, because the object is already in the cache. > i've noticed that occasionally one to gmail isn't through the parent either: > 1136474609.793 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/000 0 POST > http://mail.google.com/mail/? - NONE/- - > 1136474671.377 0 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/000 0 POST > http://mail.google.com/mail/? - NONE/- - > - Check your squid.conf thoroughly, make sure no other http_access rules are in place , which could cause this. - SQUID version ? M.