Re: [squid-users] Squid not caching, plz help

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:25:54 +1200

> On 04/06/2011 12:08, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>
>> On 04/06/11 09:16, MrNicholsB wrote:
>>> Ok Ive had squid3 running rock solid for months, I recently migrated
>>> from Ubuntu 9 to 10.04 and now Squid is clearly not caching, but traffic
>>> IS passing through it, my conf is the same as it was before but now im
>>> getting an error on cache.log every time squid gets a request, any help
>>> would be great, im sure its something simple Im just not seeing..THANK
>>> YOU!!
>>>
>>>
>>> ERRORs from cache.log
>>> ==============================
>>> 2011/06/03 13:57:32| clientNatLookup: NF getsockopt(SO_ORIGINAL_DST)
>>> failed: (92) Protocol not available
>>
>> You have a http_port configured with "transparent" or "intercept".
>> Tellign Squid to lookup NAT for the IP details.
>> It is being sent traffic which apparently never went through NAT. Your
>> access.log will contain lies about what client IP was making the
>> request. *THIS IS BAD*. Your squid.conf is making you vulnerable to
>> security attack CVE-2009-0801
>>
>> Solution:
>> * pick a random port number for the NAT-to-Squid packet arrival. Use a
>> second port for regular proxy requests.
>>
>> * follow the config details for iptables "mangle" table:
>> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/LinuxDnat

Sorry, that should have been
   http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Intercept/LinuxDnat

Amos

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