Dear Simon, How was your network topology? Does all connection through proxy first or router box first? Try caching only for port 80 (http), and bypass the others. Maybe a glance on your squid.conf might help us understanding your problem. Regards, Nikolas -----Original Message----- From: simon benedict [mailto:sbdcunha@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:48 PM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: bypass squid cache Dear All, i have been using squid on Red hat linux for a long time and its workin perfectly fine recently we changed our ISP and we found that our users on private IP's were not able to sign in with YAHOO MESSANGER OR WINDOWS MESSANGER. when contacted the ISP it was told that we have to bypass the squid cache and probably it may work i tried googling but was not very sucessful.. apprecite if anyone can advise n let me know if i could bypass squid cache for YAHOO MESSANGER and WINDOWS MESSNAGER for my private ip users but all the browsing works perfect Really appreciate your help regards simon ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping