Re: [squid-users] Forcing a local subnet to go direct?

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:34:57 -0700 (PDT), JOREar <JORear_at_MSN.com> wrote:
> Amos Jeffries-2 wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:26:04 -0700 (PDT), JOREar <JORear_at_MSN.com> wrote:
>>> I was actually able to accomplish this much easier than I thought. I
was
>>> just
>>> not getting the syntax correct.
>>>
>>> acl local-network dst 10.50.0.0/16, 10.45.0.0/16
>>
>> NP: no comma in the squid.conf syntax for dst.
>>
>>> always_direct allow local-network
>>>
>>> Thanks all for your help.
>>
>> If preventing the local network from ever using any of your configured
>> proxy peers fixes it, what was the problem?
>>
>> Amos
>>
>>
>
> The problem is that a new proxy server (not a squid proxy) has problems
> with
> some internal applications. When outside hosts on spoke VLANs connect to
> their squid proxy, it forwards the request to a central proxy cache. In
> order to make the web applications work properly, the requests for these
> applications need to go directly to the servers hosting them instead of
> through the corporate proxy server.

Ah thought so.
always_direct seems to only asked about in the presence of locally hosted
apps. Just checking whether you had a broken accelerator config or not.
Sound like not, (but you may want to look into the functionality anyway).

Amos
Received on Wed Jul 22 2009 - 04:40:42 MDT