[squid-users] Re: windowsupdate hanging

> I am having a problem accessing http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com through
> my squid server running on FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE. When I first start squid
> (nothing cached at all yet), it works. But, the second time I try it, IE
> hangs when I click on "Product Update" tabs.
>
> Has anybody experienced this before? If so, what was the fix?
>
> As a temporary solution, I bypassed the squid server in the ipfw rules, but
> I would like to be able to pass it through squid untimately. Imagine, all
> my customers (2000 of them) doing windows updates at the speed the ethernet
> will carry it. Whoo hoo! :)

Rick -

I've experienced one loop in windowsupdate myself. I had one station
updating for 12 hours or so. The user was completely unaware this was
going on and quite surprised when I called him. I didn't dig into it
much, but it was something run by a scheduler and I think he was running
windows ME.

My squid stats looked really good that week since the one station kept getting
23Mb (it's what I remember anyway) of the same cached stuff every hour.

I only recall seeing it from that one node and he rebooted his machine (his
choice, I just told him to check on it). I haven't seen it again (that was 2
months ago or so).

- John

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