> Hi > > I installed Squid 2.6 on Centos 5.1 X86_64 system about a week ago - and > it worked fine for the first few days. > I have set all clients to use the Squid Proxy for all external (non > private 192.168.0.0/24) ip addresses. The only squid config settings I > changed from default were ACL changes to allow proxy access to everyone > on the local network. > > I now have the following situation on this client: > 1) I can browse local addresses fine (as they are direct) > 2) I can browse a few non local addresses fine. I can refresh my ISPs > usage data OK for example, and it is clearly refreshing the live data > via squid. > 3) If I browse most arbitrary web addresses - the firefox tab hangs > indefinitely with the little circular animation on the tab. > 4) If I revert to direct access (Non proxy) - everything works fine. > 5) I have deleted the entire cache - and maybe that helped for a bit - > but the problem returned very soon after. > 6) I have checked CPU and memory usage on the centos machine - and > everything looks fine - almost nothing happening. > 7) I did make some router changes to try to prevent direct access from > clients - but I have since reverted these changes because the router did > not behave as expected. It is now back to the starting point - but the > problem persists. > 8) I have recently installed sarg, Calamaris and Webalizer - but I doubt > these could be responsible for the problem. > > Can anyone suggest what might be going on here, and if so - how to fix it? > If not - can anyone advise diagnostic steps? It sounds like you are hitting one of the interception catch-22s. Only you don't mention interception. Do you have any FW entries specifically for the proxy box? What exactly do your ACL and access lines look like now? Amos
