On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:58:10 -0800, Henrik Nordstrom said: "With Squid you will see the following ports in use: a) The TCP ports specified by http_port (and/or https_port) in LISTEN state, and any client connections open to these.. b) UDP icp_port, snmp_port and htcp_port c) One additional random UDP port for DNS d) Random TCP connections over the loopback (127.0.0.1) interface to each helper, all in CONNECTED state. You should NOT see random TCP ports in LISTEN state. If you do then you have probably set "http_port 0" in your squid.conf.. Regards Henrik"