Re: [squid-users] Need to redirect traffic of www.hi5.com to a different parent proxy

Manoj Rajkarnikar wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
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>> Dear Manoj,
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>> I have solved this problem by redirecting the traffic of the proxy
>> server to another proxy server which can access the www.hi5.com site.
>>
>> I am using Squid-2.5 right now. I plan to upgrade to Squid-2.6 when
>> FreeBSD-6.2 gets released.
>>
>> However, since I redirected the hi5.com traffic to another proxy
>> server, I have had no problems.
>>
>> I just added the lines below in my squid.conf:
>>
>> acl viaServer3 dstdomain .hi5.com
>> cache_peer_access Server3.com.np allow viaServer3
>> never_direct allow viaServer3
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>> Hope it works for you too since it is working for me :)
>>
>
> Thanks Tek for your input. As we use single cache (no peers), I've
> bypassed this cache for hi5.com and is now being cached by another cache
> (squid2.5S10) at our upstream facility, and it works from there. my
> concern is that this error is difficult to reproduce and have not found
> any definitive pattern and only solution so far is to use another cache
> server that works with the site or bypass the caching totally. It would be
> really great if someone could come up with a solid reasoning/solution for
> it.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>

Can/Has someone confirm that it is actually a squid problem rather than
a problem of hi5.com blocking the servers somehow?

AJ
Received on Mon Jan 08 2007 - 04:28:51 MST