I have managed to get Squid working and now I need to tweak it. Firstly, although I am able to access the 'net through squid, it sometimes takes a while: >From /var/log/squid/cache.log: 2008/01/11 09:59:09| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 09:59:44| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 09:59:44| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 09:59:44| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 09:59:45| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 09:59:46| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 10:00:21| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 10:00:53| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 10:01:01| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 10:01:24| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 10:01:24| Detected DEAD Parent: proxy.ua.pt 2008/01/11 10:01:34| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed 2008/01/11 10:01:47| TCP connection to proxy.ua.pt/3128 failed I have configured https://www.opendns.com as my named.conf.options forwarders { 208.67.222.222; 208.67.220.220; }; As you can see, although the correct page is eventually presented to the browser, it takes just under 2 minutes.