Thanks Eliezer. I think the server is the rejecting squid's IP as you pointed out, with http_access not blocked for any machine. Regards, Satish On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry Satish Thareja, > > This post is outdated since squid is not in 2.5\6 but on 3.3. > If you will share more from squid.conf lines we can try to help you. > if you can share the access.log we can try to understand. > please share IP etc.. > if you are getting 403 it means that the server is rejecting you and not > squid. > > use http_access allow all > if in this case it's not working either you are trying to access some > strange port or strange method. > > Regards, > Eliezer > > > On 6/4/2013 7:20 PM, Satish Thareja wrote: >> >> Amos, >> >> The config is to allow http access for all but this case. >> I came across this link : >> >> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/so-many-tcp_denied-in-squid-access-log-469574/ >> >> but I do not have anything blocked in my configuration. >> >> Is it possible that, if the 'host' does not allow access to all >> machines ( and new request from squid machine ), then we will get >> TCP_DENIED/403 status code ?? >> >> Thanks, >> Satish >> >> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 4/06/2013 11:17 p.m., Satish Thareja wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have configured my squid box without restricting 'http_access' on >>>> any resource. >>>> But when I try to access a resource 'host.domain.com' using the >>>> hostname (i.e. host ) directly, I am getting TCP_DENIED/403 response >>>> code. >>>> >>>> I able to resolve 'host' from the squid machine directly, but http >>>> requests to the 'host' still fail. >>>> >>>> What could possibly wrong with my configuration? >>> >>> >>> >>> Perhapse if you showed the configuration somebody might have a clue.... >>> >>> Amos >>> >