Re: [squid-users] Windows update hangs

Are you getting your users to authenticate when they connect?

Windows update looks like is not capable of working well with authenticating proxies. If you exclude URLs used by Windows updates from authenticating, it will go through.

Look at access.log to see the URLs used by Windows Updates.

Regards

Sunil

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>>> Lasse Mørk <debian@cyrix.dk> 08/11/05 6:52 PM >>>

Hi Aaron
The squid is not running as a transperent proxy, and we have manually set
the proxy settings in I-Explore.

It works though, but takes 30min - 1hour or so to connect. And forever to
download the updates. :(

> Hi Lasse
>
> It could be related to the problem I'm having, depending on how your proxy
> it set up. I'm trying to build a box to manage the Quarantine network in
> our environment and the Windows Update site hangs/fails for me as well.
> The
> problem in my case is that Squid is a transparent proxy, and when you
> click
> on either the "Custom" or "Express" options, it briefly requires an SSL
> connection to download.windowsupdate.com - since Squid doesn't seem to
> have
> a way to do that in transparent mode, it fails.
>
> If I set IE to use Squid as a proxy directly, it'll work. Have you tried
> setting the proxy settings directly in IE yet?
>
> Aaron
>
> Lasse Mørk wrote:
>> Is there anyway to get around this issue?
>>
>> It just stalls now where it looks for latest updates.
>> Maybe without caching the windows update files?
>>
>> I am getting kinda desperate!
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hmm.. Dosn't seem to help :(
>>>
>>>It still lacks and run terrible slow.
>>>
>>>
>>>>On 8/11/05, Lasse Mørk <debian@cyrix.dk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hey all
>>>>>
>>>>>squid 2.5.9-10 running debian.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone knows what to do, when windows update hangs ?
>>>>>Sometime it just stalls, but now and then it works, although it is got
>>>>>damn slow :(
>>>>>
>>>>>Including that, it prompts for user and passwords just before it
>>>>> checks
>>>>>for updates, I belive it is?
>>>>>
>>>>>Any solution to this? The best thing would be if it was possible to
>>>>>cache
>>>>>the updates, but it worst case I might have to remove the windows
>>>>>update
>>>>>site, from the proxy list.
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.54
>>>>
>>>> M.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Aaron McDonnell
> Network Administrator
> Network Operations Centre
> University of Western Ontario
> Tel: 519-661-2111 ext. 86558
>

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