RE: [squid-users] Re: Squid problems with Windows Update

I'm a newb with squid so you may have already looked for this but...

search your conf for "no_cache deny all"

I'm wondering if the squid.conf that "ships" with stable6 has that in there
somewhere

-----Original Message-----
From: Abdock [mailto:abdock@zanlink.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 3:01 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Re: Squid problems with Windows Update

just an update,

i loaded with squid2.5 stable5 and everything is ok, looks the
squid2.5stable6 has some problems, or has some settings...

thanks.
-----Original message-----

-----Original message-----
From: Adam Aube aaube01@baker.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:38:11 +0300
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Re: Squid problems with Windows Update

> Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > Yesterday, Microsoft announced a bunch of new bug fixes, which nearly
> > every Windows machine on the Net is eagerly downloading. Unfortunately,
a
> > client of mine is having problems with a transparent Squid proxy with
> > Windows machines behind it. Apparently, Windows Update fetches updates
in
> > chunks, about 2K at a time.
>
> > In any case, each time a client requests a 2K chunk, the Squid proxy is
> > re-fetching an entire file that's 2 MB or larger from a parent cache.
>
> Does the same thing occur when the proxy is not running transparently?
>
> Adam
>
Received on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 13:53:17 MDT