That's very odd. I'd try calling them... There are quite a few folks blocking proxies these days. What I do is remove the via and forwarded for headers with the following command: check_hostnames off forwarded_for delete via off I realize this breaks the RFC, but lest be blocked if detected as a squid proxy. sux Best regards, The Geek Guy Lawrence Pingree http://www.lawrencepingree.com/resume/ Author of "The Manager's Guide to Becoming Great" http://www.Management-Book.com -----Original Message----- From: squid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:squid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 4:43 AM To: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: google picking up squid as > How about contacting google for advise? > They are the one that forces you to the issue. > They don't like it that you have a 1k clients behind your IP address. > They should tell you what to do. > You can tell them that you are using squid as a forward proxy to > enforce usage acls on users inside the network. > It's not a share to use squid... > It's a shame that you cannot get a reasonable explanation to the > reason you are blocked... > There is only 1 client behind the IP address as it is a test server so something is going wrong with either routing or requests to google. Google will not answer any emails. I suppose one alternative is to use unbound in conjunction with squid and not redirect any requests to google?