On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:15:48AM -0500, Mark Thornton wrote:
> I noticed a few days ago that we were introducing a problem with the Squid
> cache when we disabled it to troubleshoot another issue (dns lookup times).
> Clients have been unable to connect to Fighter Ace in the GameZone due to
> what MSN considers to be firewall errors. They instruct us to open up
> certain ports but all are open. I think the real problem is that they are
> unable to contact the client directly on another port because the request
> came through the cache server (transparent proxy redirect at the Cisco on
> port 80). Has anyone else experienced this? How would this be corrected?
>
If you're pretty sure that the Fighter Ace game is trying to follow the
client IP, I'd recommend perhaps excluding the Zone IP addresses from
your transparent proxy/WCCP - ie allow clients to have direct access. Problem
I find with the Zone is that each game seems to be written by different
developers and has differing tolerance to HTTP proxies and full firewall
application proxies.
I found that no_caching the Zone domain fixed most problems, getting clients
to empty their caches fixed the rest (eg MSIE versions that dislike being
transparently proxied).
tom@asiaonline.net
Received on Thu May 11 2000 - 03:27:28 MDT
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