[squid-users] Squid can't access FTP servers [ODD]

Hi all,

Ok this is a bizarre situation.

The proxy server is setup with all the default settings. No real ACL rules
have been added, basically out-of-the-box installation with a few minor
changes here and there (cache_effective_user/group, cache_dir,
visible_hostname).

Now you can access a FTP server from the proxy server with no problem (going
through the proxy server), and you can access the ip address of that same
ftp server with no problems.

Now on a client machine, running IE6 with no updates, can’t access an FTP
site like ftp.is.co.za – You just get a time-out error. However, take the ip
address of that server and it does go through.

Now to add all odd-ness, the client CAN access the ftp server via
ftp://anonymous:password@ftp.is.co.za without a hitch. Odd heh?

I have checked cache.log… when a client tries to access a ftp server via
ftp://ftp.is.co.za cache.log reports no connections. Its as if the client
isn’t even access the proxy server… Yet when you access it via IP address or
via ftp://anonymous:password@ftp.is.co.za then cache.log reports the
connection (ftpStart: blab blab bla).

Any ideas. Its not DNS because http sites work no problems.

Thanks
Douglas Lane
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