oh dear that was it! can't believe I had a big fat type, it was driving me crazy ;) Thanks a lot for the help Amos! Cheers, Daniel On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Daniel Iversen wrote: >> >> Hi there.. >> >> I have a seemingly simple requirement that I can't get working in >> Squid (2.7 on Windows), and that is to be able to use a a Squid setup >> as a proxy server (with aggressive caching) behind another closed-off >> corporate proxy server (not squid necessarily) for all Internet HTTP >> access going out. >> >> So basically, I have the following config in squid.conf; >> >> cache_peer parent <IP or hostname of my proxy server> 8080 0 no-query >> default > > If thats not a typo ... try: > cache_peer IP-address parent 8080 0 no-query default > > >> acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 >> http_access allow all >> never_direct allow all >> >> (I used to have the recommended and more secure "http_access" >> parameters but reverted to the above for testing but it made no >> difference) >> >> I am always getting errors like this; >> >> 2010/01/13 15:20:24| Failed to select source for >> 'http://www.google.com.au/' >> 2010/01/13 15:20:24| always_direct = 0 >> 2010/01/13 15:20:24| never_direct = 1 >> 2010/01/13 15:20:24| timedout = 0 >> >> Its to be noted that in my corporate environment I have to go through >> this external proxy to get internet access and I can't even ping >> servers from my local machine and probably have limited DNS access >> too. So really my Squid server needs to forward all details as-is to >> the external proxy but it does not work. >> >> I have also tried experimenting with the following command line >> arguments when starting squid " -DY -d 4 -X " but to no avail? >> >> Am I crazy here? Should this not be a simple setup? Any ideas why this >> could be? Anyone has a working Squid config for something like this >> that they could share? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance for your help.. >> >> Cheers, >> Daniel > > Amos > -- > Please be using > Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE7 or 3.0.STABLE21 > Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.15 >
