Re: [squid-users] Squid is running but nothing happens

Thanks, it indeed turned out there was a firewall running on the server. As
soon as I disabled it, everything started working perfectly.

Gavin McCullagh-2 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, oar22 wrote:
>
>> Sorry if this has been asked a bunch of times before, but seem to have
>> hit a
>> dead end here. I'm running Squid version 3.0 on linux. When it starts up
>> it
>> shows that it's accepting HTTP connections at the correct IP. I'm able to
>> test using squidclient and that part seems to work just fine -- the
>> correct
>> HTML comes up, all the relevant log files get written to, and I don't get
>> any error messages. However, when I put in the same IP in the browser's
>> proxy settings along with the default IP, any page I try to go to just
>> times
>> out. I turned off the Windows firewall and the antivirus on the client
>> machine but to no avail. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.
>
> From the client machine with the browser, can you:
>
> 1. Ping the proxy server (ie make sure there's no routing issues).
> 2. Telnet to the proxy server on the relevant port, get a reply and
> GET http://google.com/ HTTP/1.0
> (make sure a firewall isn't blocking connections).
>
> and if you like:
>
> 3. Run "tcpdump -i <interface> tcp host <clientip>" on the proxy server
> to see what network conversation the proxy server has with the client.
> As with [2], no packets probably indicates a firewall blocking
> the path.
>
> Gavin
>
>
>
>

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