[Ubuntu] Squid timeouts

[localzuk]

I have made a start on our new Squid box to replace our aging ISA box, and have hit a small roadbump.

I've set it up very basically so far - namely defining the access rules (ie. saying people on our IP range can use it), setting the cache_peer rule for the parent proxy (swgfl) and set the visible_name value (morbo.schooldomain.etc...).

Now, when I go to the hostname direct (namely morbo:8080, as that is the port I am using) it gives me the error message I expect - invalid request.

But if I set the box as the proxy in Chrome (or anything else), it times out on everything. It worked once, for the first request I made to google.co.uk but that was it. Everything else just dies.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Anything you would like to see, logs etc... can be provided.

[localzuk]

Ok, well. That was dumb of me...

never_direct allow all is the fix here.

It was trying to process requests directly. Stupid thing.

[Geoff]

I blame the operator

[localzuk]

I blame the operator

Well, to be honest, i've not played with Squid much before, and there are a lot of settings - this one being one that wasn't in any of the 'quickstart' tutorials around the net. I feel a wiki entry coming on.

[ind1ekid]

never_direct allow all is the fix here.

Am i right thinking that this setting makes all requests go through a parent proxy, providing you have one? So because im on embc, it needs to be set as such so the requests get forwarded through that peer?

[localzuk]

Am i right thinking that this setting makes all requests go through a parent proxy, providing you have one? So because im on embc, it needs to be set as such so the requests get forwarded through that peer?

You would be correct.