[squid-users] Re: Squid + Windowsupdate Problem

From: Elsen Marc <elsen@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:56:01 +0100

>Greetings,

> We have been unable to get Windowsupdate working in our environment
>for quite some time now, and solutions I have seen posted on-line do
>not seem to work for us.

> We have implemented a SUS server on our internal network segment,
>which works fine, but the public network segment cannot get updates due
>to timeout issues.

> I have added ACL's to deny caching to .microsoft.com, but it does not
>appear to make any difference.

> I have blocked outgoing port 80, forcing everyone on our network to go
>through the proxy.

> If I open up outgoing port 80 on the firewall for a particular IP, the
>IP can hit windowsupdate just fine. As soon as it goes through the
>proxy, it times out.

> Any ideas ?

       Use the tool 'proxycfg' shipped with Windows:
  
       proxycfg -u # set windowsupdate proxy to IE-proxy
       proxycfg -d # reset windowsupdate proxy
  

M.
Received on Tue Feb 08 2005 - 04:58:08 MST

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