greetings, squid running like a champ. Anyhoo. i need to make squid go direct for some sites. ( reasons: some edu sites don't cache well ). did some reading acl directlist dstdomain .some.com always_direct allow directlist two things. Where in my configuration should this line go. and instead of listing each domain ina single line. can I point to a file. If yes, what would the file format look like. acl directlist dstdomain /local/file ?????? (snip) acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl s3.1 src 192.199.0.0/16 192.200.0.0/16 acl s4.1 src 192.208.0.0/16 192.209.0.0/16 acl s5.1 src 192.217.0.0/16 192.218.0.0/16 acl core src 10.3.1.0/24 # access to http traffic http_access allow manager localhost #http_access allow manager apache http_access allow s3.1 http_access allow s4.1 http_access allow s5.1 http_access allow core http_access deny all (snip) not sure where i would place that line. --j