Hi, I am using squid as a transparent proxy, with the purpose of caching local content so I can save bandwidth and accellerate frequently used pages. My problem is that squid is permanently fetching content from the internet, and I don't know why. I have deleted, then recreated the cache dir with -z several times, but I always see traffic from squid with tcpdump. This is puzzling me. It seems to crawl to the most weird sites. I thought squid would only go to the internet after a user requests a page, but I have nobody connected to the server. I initially found it weird that the CPU was always working for squid (5%~10%) with no one connected, then I found this. Can someone please shed a light on the subject? I have researched the faq and wiki, but I might be looking with the wrong keywords... I found nothing on this matter. Thank you!
