Hallo, Amos, Du meintest am 22.11.10: >>> Turn of "offline_mode" if you have it set in squid.conf. Despite >>> the name, it only causes aggressive caching to be done. >> But what shall I do with a squid installation in a boarding school >> ("Internat", many pupils have their own computer(s)) where the >> connection into the internet is cut from midnight to 6:00? >> >> "squid" mourns on and on that the DNS is unreachable (and that's >> right ...). > Make yourself a custom error page template explaining the situation. > Then use a deny_info line to supply it when a time-based ACL at the > top of the http_access list matches your offline times. No DNS or > external network connection involved. May be I do something wrong - but my ACL doesn't help. ------------ part of "squid.conf" ------------------- http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager # nach Buch http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access deny Dangerous_ports # nur LAN erlaubt (ist das doppelt gemoppelt?) http_access deny !localnet include /etc/squid/conf.d/schlafen.conf # .... -------------- end squid.conf ----------------------------- with ------------- /etc/squid/conf.d/schlafen.conf -------------- acl Schlafzeit time 00:00-05:59 http_access allow !Schlafzeit # -------------- end schlafen.conf ---------------------------- Early in the morning I get the following messages in "/var/log/ messages": ------------- /var/log/messages ------------------------------ Nov 22 04:13:23 Arktur squid[3238]: Failure Ratio at 1.088 Nov 22 04:13:23 Arktur squid[3238]: Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes... Nov 22 04:18:23 Arktur squid[3238]: Failure Ratio at 1.401 Nov 22 04:18:23 Arktur squid[3238]: Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes... Nov 22 04:23:42 Arktur squid[3238]: Failure Ratio at 1.245 Nov 22 04:23:42 Arktur squid[3238]: Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes... Nov 22 04:28:42 Arktur squid[3238]: Failure Ratio at 1.092 Nov 22 04:28:42 Arktur squid[3238]: Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes... Nov 22 04:33:42 Arktur squid[3238]: Failure Ratio at 1.440 Nov 22 04:33:42 Arktur squid[3238]: Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes... Nov 22 04:39:33 Arktur squid[3238]: Failure Ratio at 1.008 Nov 22 04:39:33 Arktur squid[3238]: Going into hit-only-mode for 5 minutes... --------------- end messages ---------------------------------- My squid version: Squid Cache: Version 3.1.8 configure options: '--prefix=/usr' '--libdir=/usr/lib' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid' '--localstatedir=/var/log/squid' '--datadir=/usr/share/squid' '--with-pidfile=/var/run/squid' '--mandir=/usr/man' '--with-logdir=/var/log/squid' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-storeio=aufs,ufs,diskd' '--enable-wccp' '--enable-arp-acl' '--enable-ssl' '--enable-removal-policies=lru,heap' '--enable-icmp' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-auth=basic' '--enable-basic-auth-helpers=NCSA,YP,multi-domain-NTLM,MSNT,SMB,getpwnam' '--enable-linux-netfilter' '--enable-async-io' '--disable-loadable-modules' '--build=i486-slackware-linux' 'build_alias=i486-slackware-linux' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686' --with-squid=/tmp/SBo/squid-3.1.8 --enable-ltdl-convenience Viele Gruesse! Helmut