On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, John C. Gale wrote:
> > 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.
Not sure about Windows ME but I did notice that my Win2000 pro scheduler
had Windows update checking for updates every few minutes by default! This
seemed to be overkill. I changed it to once a day.
-Mike
Received on Mon Aug 20 2001 - 11:29:16 MDT
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