Re: [squid-users] Don't use ICP at all, don't ask, don't request, do nothing with ICP?

Dale Mahalko wrote:
> Our organization uses a centralized ISP 8e6 R3000 proxy that provides
> us with CIPA compliance.
>
> Because I don't have access to the ISP's 8e6 log files for our site, I
> have been using squid 2.7 STABLE3 as a proxy log / cache for the 8e6
> box.
>
>
> It appears that the latest upgrade of the ISP's 8e6 R3000, installed
> yesterday, does not support ICP at all. Before I was able to get squid
> to work with the default port of 3130 even though the ISP would not
> officially confirm to me that ICP was supported. But now I get
> continuous "TCP connection failed" messages with the new R3000 update.
>
> It appears that I cannot stop Squid from making any sort of ICP
> request of the parent?
>
> This does not work:
> icp_port 0
> cache_peer proxy.foo.com parent 8760 0 originserver no-query
> no-digest no-netdb-exchange
>

Don't use originserver. That's a reverse proxy configuration.

> Also very strange, but when a page access is attempted through the
> now-nonfunctional squid cache, a "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" Apache
> server default-install page pops up in place of root page access to
> any website. For example, http://www.google.com/ comes up looking
> like that. The squid's host OS is Ubuntu, and there is no Apache web
> server or www directory on the server.
>

The R3000 runs RHEL. You are passing requests to it as the origin
server, not as a parent proxy.

> I have looked carefully through the config file and I do not know
> where it is pulling up that Red Hat apache webserver page from.
>

Chris
Received on Tue Dec 08 2009 - 21:02:03 MST