Hello everyone. I am building an Apache and Squid Reserve Proxy environment. Everything looks good except the last step - Squid. I got a error Connection to ::1 failed..... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Details..... 1) Servers: Apache HTTP Server runs on server ark08.maya.com 192.168.220.50, HTTP service port is 8001. The Linux firewall wall has been turned off. The web page http://ark09.maya.com:8001/hello.py is accessible. Squid Proxy server runs on server ark09.maya.com 192.168.220.60, service port 3128. The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL http://ark09.maya.com:3128/hello.py. ********************************************************************************************************************** ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://ark09.maya.com:3128/hello.py Connection to ::1 failed. The system returned: (111) Connection refused The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again. Your cache administrator is webmaster. Generated Sun, 13 Nov 2011 03:35:08 GMT by ark09.maya.com (squid/3.1.16) ********************************************************************************************************************** squid.conf # # Recommended minimum configuration: # acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1 # Example rule allowing access from your local networks. # Adapt to list your (internal) IP networks from where browsing # should be allowed acl localnet src 10.0.0.0/8 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.16.0.0/12 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.0.0/16 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT # # Recommended minimum Access Permission configuration: # # Only allow cachemgr access from localhost http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager # Deny requests to certain unsafe ports http_access deny !Safe_ports # Deny CONNECT to other than secure SSL ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports # We strongly recommend the following be uncommented to protect innocent # web applications running on the proxy server who think the only # one who can access services on "localhost" is a local user #http_access deny to_localhost # # INSERT YOUR OWN RULE(S) HERE TO ALLOW ACCESS FROM YOUR CLIENTS # # Example rule allowing access from your local networks. # Adapt localnet in the ACL section to list your (internal) IP networks # from where browsing should be allowed http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost # And finally deny all other access to this proxy #http_access deny all # Squid normally listens to port 3128 http_port 3128 transparent vhost vport #http_port 3128 transparent vhost #http_port 3128 vhost vport # Peer Web Server Configuration cache_peer ark08.maya.com parent 8001 0 no-query originserver name=myAccel acl my_site dstdomain ark08.maya.com http_access allow my_site cache_peer_access myAccel allow my_site #ache_peer_access myAccel deny all # Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory. #cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 100 16 256 cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 10000 16 256 cache_log /usr/local/squid/var/logs/cache.log cache_mem 1024 MB # Leave coredumps in the first cache dir coredump_dir /usr/local/squid/var/cache # Add any of your own refresh_pattern entries above these. refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 # To fix "Unable to forward this request at this time" problem always_direct allow all