Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage
Thanks Augustus for the email my information is --- [root@proxy squid]# squidclient -h 127.0.0.1 mgr:storedir HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: squid/3.1.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Expires: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT Last-Modified: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT X-Cache: MISS from proxy X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from proxy:3128 Via: 1.0 proxy (squid/3.1.10) Connection: close Store Directory Statistics: Store Entries : 13649421 Maximum Swap Size : 58368 KB Current Store Swap Size: 250112280 KB Current Capacity : 43% used, 57% free Store Directory #0 (aufs): /opt/var/spool/squid FS Block Size 4096 Bytes First level subdirectories: 32 Second level subdirectories: 256 Maximum Size: 58368 KB Current Size: 250112280 KB Percent Used: 42.85% Filemap bits in use: 13649213 of 16777216 (81%) Filesystem Space in use: 264249784/854534468 KB (31%) Filesystem Inodes in use: 13657502/54263808 (25%) Flags: SELECTED Removal policy: lru LRU reference age: 44.69 days -- and my squid.conf is as -- always_direct allow all cache_log /opt/var/log/squid/cache.log cache_access_log /opt/var/log/squid/access.log cache_swap_low 90 cache_swap_high 95 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1 acl localnet src 172.16.5.0/24 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.17.0.0/22 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.20.0/24 # RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines always_direct allow local-servers acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports acl ipgroup src 172.16.5.1-172.16.5.255/32 acl ipgroup src 172.17.0.10-172.17.3.254/32 delay_pools 1 delay_class 1 2 delay_parameters 1 256/386 14/18 delay_access 1 allow ipgroup delay_access 1 deny all http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost http_access deny all http_port 3128 transparent hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? cache_dir aufs /opt/var/spool/squid 57 32 256 coredump_dir /opt/var/spool/squid maximum_object_size 4 GB refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 90% 99 ignore-no-cache override-expire ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg|ico)$ 10080 90% 43200 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv)$ 43200 90% 432000 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(deb|rpm|exe|zip|tar|tgz|ram|rar|bin|ppt|doc|tiff)$ 10080 90% 43200 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.index.(html|htm)$ 0 40% 10080 refresh_pattern -i \.(html|htm|css|js)$ 1440 40% 40320 refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern -i (/cgi-bin/|\?) 0 0% 0 refresh_pattern . 0 40% 40320 visible_hostname proxy icap_enable on icap_preview_enable on icap_preview_size 4096 icap_persistent_connections on icap_send_client_ip on icap_send_client_username on icap_service qlproxy1 reqmod_precache bypass=0 icap://127.0.0.1:1344/reqmod icap_service qlproxy2 respmod_precache bypass=0 icap://127.0.0.1:1344/respmod adaptation_access qlproxy1 allow all adaptation_access qlproxy2 allow all Guidance and advice requested Thanks for the reply Joseph John - Original Message - From: babajaga augustus_me...@yahoo.de To: squid-users@squid-cache.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 1 August 2013 2:11 PM Subject: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage The relatively low byte-hitrate gives the idea, that somewhere in your squid.conf there is a limitation on the max. objects size to be cached. It might be a good idea, to modify this one, to a larger value. Caus it seems, you still have a lot of disk space available for caching. So you might post your squid.conf here. And, the output of squidclient -h 127.0.0.1 mgr:storedir -- View this message in context:
Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage
On 4/08/2013 7:13 p.m., John Joseph wrote: Thanks Augustus for the email my information is --- [root@proxy squid]# squidclient -h 127.0.0.1 mgr:storedir HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: squid/3.1.10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT Content-Type: text/plain Expires: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT Last-Modified: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 07:01:30 GMT X-Cache: MISS from proxy X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from proxy:3128 Via: 1.0 proxy (squid/3.1.10) Connection: close Store Directory Statistics: Store Entries : 13649421 Maximum Swap Size : 58368 KB Current Store Swap Size: 250112280 KB Current Capacity : 43% used, 57% free Store Directory #0 (aufs): /opt/var/spool/squid FS Block Size 4096 Bytes First level subdirectories: 32 Second level subdirectories: 256 Maximum Size: 58368 KB Current Size: 250112280 KB Percent Used: 42.85% Filemap bits in use: 13649213 of 16777216 (81%) Filesystem Space in use: 264249784/854534468 KB (31%) Filesystem Inodes in use: 13657502/54263808 (25%) Flags: SELECTED Removal policy: lru LRU reference age: 44.69 days You appear to have a good case there for upgrading to squid-3.2 or later and adding a rock cache_dir. As you can see 81% of the Filemap is full. That is the file number codes Squid uses to internally reference stored objects. There is an absolute limit of 2^24 (or 1677216 in the above report). That will require an average object size of 35KB to fill your 557 GB storage area. Your details earlier said the mean object size actually stored so far was 18KB. If you add a 50GB rock store alongside that UFS directory you should be able to double the cached object count. -- and my squid.conf is as -- always_direct allow all cache_log /opt/var/log/squid/cache.log cache_access_log/opt/var/log/squid/access.log cache_swap_low 90 cache_swap_high 95 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/32 ::1 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 0.0.0.0/32 ::1 acl localnet src 172.16.5.0/24# RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 172.17.0.0/22# RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src 192.168.20.0/24# RFC1918 possible internal network acl localnet src fc00::/7 # RFC 4193 local private network range acl localnet src fe80::/10 # RFC 4291 link-local (directly plugged) machines always_direct allow local-servers You are using always_direct allow all above. This line is never even being checked. Also, always_direct has no meaning when there are no cache_peer lines to be overridden (which is the purpose of always_direct). You can remove both the always_direct lines to make things a bit faster. acl SSL_ports port 443 acl Safe_ports port 80# http acl Safe_ports port 21# ftp acl Safe_ports port 443# https acl Safe_ports port 70# gopher acl Safe_ports port 210# wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535# unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280# http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488# gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591# filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777# multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports acl ipgroup src 172.16.5.1-172.16.5.255/32 acl ipgroup src 172.17.0.10-172.17.3.254/32 delay_pools 1 delay_class 1 2 delay_parameters 1 256/386 14/18 delay_access 1 allow ipgroup delay_access 1 deny all http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost http_access allow localnet http_access allow localhost You have doubled these rules up. http_access deny all http_port 3128 transparent It is a good idea to always have 3128 listing for regular proxy traffic and redirecting the intercepted traffic to a separate port. The interception port is a private detail only relevant to teh NAT infrastructure doing the redirection and Squid. It can be firewalled to prevent any access directly to the port. hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? cache_dir aufs /opt/var/spool/squid 57 32 256 coredump_dir /opt/var/spool/squid maximum_object_size 4 GB Can you try placing this above the cache_dir line please and see if it makes any difference? refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 90% 99 ignore-no-cache override-expire ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(gif|png|jpg|jpeg|ico)$ 10080 90% 43200 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(iso|avi|wav|mp3|mp4|mpeg|swf|flv|x-flv)$ 43200 90% 432000 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private refresh_pattern -i \.(deb|rpm|exe|zip|tar|tgz|ram|rar|bin|ppt|doc|tiff)$ 10080 90% 43200 override-expire ignore-no-cache ignore-no-store ignore-private ignore-private and ignore-no-store are actually VERY bad ideas. No matter that it looks okay for innocent things like images and archives. Even those types
Re: [squid-users] Squid cache siblings configuration
On 4/08/2013 5:22 p.m., Tyler Sweet wrote: Hello, My second message to the mailing list :) I've run into some problems when it comes to having two squid boxes configured to be siblings to each other. I wasn't able to pull much data about what happened, but I can sum it up for you here and then try to replicate it back when I get access to my home lab again. We're handling about 100-200 requests a second, mainly medium to small files, with the occasional 2+GB game update or so. What we saw happening, even under medium to low load (less than 50 users, probably closer to 10-20 requests a second) was that when both squid servers were set up with each other as a cache peer, one or more squid processes would start to eat memory. Eventually, they would either eat enough by themselves (22GB) or 4-7 together (each with 4 or more GB of memory in RSS) to cause the server to run into out of memory conditions and kill squid. Which *exact* release versions have you observed this behaviour in? Originally, I though this was caused by my self-compiled version of Squid 3.4 on FreeBSD, and since I was low on time and had no time to look into it further, I reloaded the servers to CentOS 6.4 and used the repo listed on the squid site to install squid 3.3.8. The problem persisted, and without any time to troubleshoot I simply disabled the cache-peer configurations. I'm pretty sure I've messed up the configuration somehow. Here are what I think are the relevant config settings I've been using: # Squid Boxen # acl siblings src 172.16.1.91 acl siblings src 172.16.1.90 # Local server # Cache Peers htcp_port 4827 htcp_access allow siblings htcp_clr_access allow siblings htcp_access deny all htcp_clr_access deny all # Sibling cache_peer 172.16.1.91 sibling 3128 4827 htcp cache_peer_access 172.16.1.91 deny STEAM_CONTENT cache_peer_access 172.16.1.91 allow all Now, looking at the config I feel like I should probably have set the siblings acl separately on both servers, to deny HTCP access from looping around. Yes in each config it should define only the IP of the other sibling. NP: IIRC there is a bug still in the CLR handling causing Squid to loop CLR requests between the peers indefinitely. That should not eat up so much memory, but might eat bandwidth. But I don't know if that looping would have had this affect or not, nor do I remember seeing anything in the logs about looping happening. Can anyone offer some guidance on this? Is it simply that I messed up the initial configuration? The above part looks fine by itself. The main thing in Squid that controls forwarding loops is via on. Which is the default. I assume you have not disabled that. The backup you can add is a cache_peer_access deny line preventing sending to the peer requests that came from there in the first place (cache_peer_access 172.16.1.91 deny siblings). Amos
[squid-users] reading swap.state file
how I can parse swap.state file for inconsistencies? i.e. files referenced in swap.state but not in disk cache. Or files on disk but not referenced in swap.state. it seems squid does not know how to shut down correctly if one of the users is viewing a youtube video.
[squid-users] Squid 3.2. and 3.3. under FreeBSD incompatible with windows?
I have compiled squid with default settings. I have nothing changed in the squid.conf. Every download initiated under Windows that last longer than few seconds don't finish. Under Linux everything is running well. I have tried 4 different Windows clients. Disabled PF under FreeBSD. Recompiled with different settings. Changed the squid.conf. Nothing helps. What to do now?
[squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage
Like I guessed already in my first reply, you are reaching the max limit of cached objects in your cache_dir, like Amos explained. Which will render ineffective part of your disk space. However, as an alternative to using rock, you can setup a second ufs/aufs cache_dir. (Especially, in case, you have a production system, I would suggest 2 ufs/aufs.) BUT, and this is valid for both alternatives, be careful then to avoid double caching by applying consistent limits on the size of cached objects. Note, that there are several limits to be considered: maximum_object_size_in_memory xx KB maximum_object_size yyy KB minimum_object_size 0 KB cache_dir aufs /var/cacheA/squid27 250 16 256 min-size=0 max-size= cache_dir aufs /var/cacheB/squid27 250 16 256 min-size=zzz+1 max-size= KB And, when doing this, you should use the newest squid release. Or good, old 2.7 :-) Reason is, that there were a few squid versions 3.x, having a bug when evaluating the combination of different limit options, with the consequence, of not storing certain cachable objects on disk. -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Squid-monitoring-access-report-shows-upto-5-to-7-cache-usage-tp4661301p4661428.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: [squid-users] helper output in logs
El 02/08/13 18:03, Amos Jeffries escribió: On 3/08/2013 3:37 a.m., Alfredo Rezinovsky wrote: I'm using store_id_program and I want my program to ouput a Key/Value pair so the value goes in the logs I tried with log and tag keys and using %[et and %[ea in LogFormat but it didn't worked. There's a generic Key/Value handling or each helper needs a special support ? See the new %note token. The intention is to make the keys sent back available as annotations, including custom ones from any helper. It is not quite working for all helpers yet (assistance with that welcome), but should be working for the store-ID ones. The %{my_key}note in logformat worked exactly as I wanted. It does work with store-id keys Thanks.
Re: [squid-users] helper output in logs
On 08/04/2013 09:46 PM, Alfredo Rezinovsky wrote: El 02/08/13 18:03, Amos Jeffries escribió: On 3/08/2013 3:37 a.m., Alfredo Rezinovsky wrote: I'm using store_id_program and I want my program to ouput a Key/Value pair so the value goes in the logs I tried with log and tag keys and using %[et and %[ea in LogFormat but it didn't worked. There's a generic Key/Value handling or each helper needs a special support ? See the new %note token. The intention is to make the keys sent back available as annotations, including custom ones from any helper. It is not quite working for all helpers yet (assistance with that welcome), but should be working for the store-ID ones. The %{my_key}note in logformat worked exactly as I wanted. It does work with store-id keys Thanks. Can you share the squid.conf output?? So others can see how it's being done properly? Thanks, Eliezer
Re: [squid-users] helper output in logs
El 04/08/13 15:52, Eliezer Croitoru escribió: On 08/04/2013 09:46 PM, Alfredo Rezinovsky wrote: El 02/08/13 18:03, Amos Jeffries escribió: On 3/08/2013 3:37 a.m., Alfredo Rezinovsky wrote: I'm using store_id_program and I want my program to ouput a Key/Value pair so the value goes in the logs I tried with log and tag keys and using %[et and %[ea in LogFormat but it didn't worked. There's a generic Key/Value handling or each helper needs a special support ? See the new %note token. The intention is to make the keys sent back available as annotations, including custom ones from any helper. It is not quite working for all helpers yet (assistance with that welcome), but should be working for the store-ID ones. The %{my_key}note in logformat worked exactly as I wanted. It does work with store-id keys Thanks. Can you share the squid.conf output?? So others can see how it's being done properly? I'm trying to make a store_id_program with many plugins. My store_id_program outputs OK store-id=http://STOREID/ whatever ... store-id-plugin=youtube OK store-id=http://STOREID/ whatever ... store-id-plugin=vimeo OK store-id=http://STOREID/ whatever ... store-id-plugin=facebookimages I wanted the store-id-plugin to appear in the logs so I can make per plugin statistics. I dont need user name in the logs and I want to keep my logs as standard as possible so I replaced %[un with %[{store-id-plugin}note in LogFormat configuration. My logformat in squid.conf: logformat access %ts.%03tu %6tr %a %Ss/%03Hs %st %rm %ru %[{store-id-plugin}note %Sh/%a %mt Now I have the store-id-plugin name (or a - if no plugin) in the logs. Here's two log line samples: 1375644685.928 2211 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 3438 GET http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn2/0_000_0_q.jpg facebookimages HIER_DIRECT/209.0.0.1 image/jpeg 1375647306.276 1628 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 2763 GET http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql? - HIER_DIRECT/98.99.100.101 application/json You can try %notes in LogFormat and will see a long string containing ALL THE KEY-VALUE pairs in your logs. (Some values were masked for privacy) -- Alfrenovsky
Re: [squid-users] Squid 3.2. and 3.3. under FreeBSD incompatible with windows?
On 5/08/2013 1:33 a.m., lorenz_81 wrote: I have compiled squid with default settings. I have nothing changed in the squid.conf. Every download initiated under Windows that last longer than few seconds don't finish. Under Linux everything is running well. I have tried 4 different Windows clients. Disabled PF under FreeBSD. Recompiled with different settings. Changed the squid.conf. Nothing helps. What to do now? 3.2 and 3.3 do not support being _run_ on Windows. But what system the client uses is irrelevant, HTTP protocol works on all OS. I think your problem is elsewhere. Most probably in ECN, MTU or window-scaling problems that are well known in using TCP between Windwos and other systems. Amos
Re: [squid-users] reading swap.state file
On 5/08/2013 1:11 a.m., Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: how I can parse swap.state file for inconsistencies? i.e. files referenced in swap.state but not in disk cache. swap.state is a journal of transactions. It includes references to operations that occured on old deleted files as part of its normal content. Squid handles any such files without the delete record automatically you do not need to worry about it. Or files on disk but not referenced in swap.state. it seems squid does not know how to shut down correctly if one of the users is viewing a youtube video. What do you mean by that last one? If Squid is shutting down it waits shutdown_timeout for clients to finish up (a long video would not do so) then terminates all remaining client connections and stops. None of them get written to the log, and on restart the corrupted files will be overwritten. Amos
Re: [squid-users] Squid cache siblings configuration
I didn't have via defined in my squid.conf, so that should be default on both servers. On FreeBSD, I built 3.4.0.1 from the website. CentOS has 3.3.8. I'll look into labbing this and seeing if I can reproduce the error and then try working with the cache_peer_access rules to deny the local box. I'll let you know what I find! -Tyler Sweet
Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage
On 5/08/2013 4:17 a.m., babajaga wrote: Like I guessed already in my first reply, you are reaching the max limit of cached objects in your cache_dir, like Amos explained. Which will render ineffective part of your disk space. However, as an alternative to using rock, you can setup a second ufs/aufs cache_dir. (Especially, in case, you have a production system, I would suggest 2 ufs/aufs.) Erm. On fast or high traffic proxies Squid uses the disk I/O capacity to the limits of the hardware. If you place 2 UFS based cache_dir on one physical disk spindle with lots of small objects they will fight for I/O resources with the result of dramatic reduction in both performance and disk lifetime relative to the traffic speed. Rock and COSS cache types avoid this by aggregating the small objects into large blocks which get read/write all at once. BUT, and this is valid for both alternatives, be careful then to avoid double caching by applying consistent limits on the size of cached objects. You won't get double caching within one proxy process. This only happens with multiple proxies or with SMP workers. Note, that there are several limits to be considered: maximum_object_size_in_memory xx KB maximum_object_size yyy KB minimum_object_size 0 KB cache_dir aufs /var/cacheA/squid27 250 16 256 min-size=0 max-size= cache_dir aufs /var/cacheB/squid27 250 16 256 min-size=zzz+1 max-size= KB And, when doing this, you should use the newest squid release. Or good, old 2.7 :-) Reason is, that there were a few squid versions 3.x, having a bug when evaluating the combination of different limit options, with the consequence, of not storing certain cachable objects on disk. That bug still exists, the important thing until that gets fixed is to place maximum_object_size above the cache_dir options. Amos
[squid-users] Re: Squid monitoring, access report shows upto 5 % to 7 % cache usage
Erm. On fast or high traffic proxies Squid uses the disk I/O capacity to the limits of the hardware. If you place 2 UFS based cache_dir on one physical disk spindle with lots of small objects they will fight for I/O resources with the result of dramatic reduction in both performance and disk lifetime relative to the traffic speed. Rock and COSS cache types avoid this by aggregating the small objects into large blocks which get read/write all at once. Really that bad ? As squid does not use raw disk-I/O for any cache type, OS/FS-specific buffering/merging/delayed writes will always happen, before cache objects are really written to disk. So, a-priori I would not see a serious difference between ufs/aufs/rock/COSS on same spindle for the same object size (besides some overhead for creation of FS-info for ufs/aufs). COSS is out-of-favour anyway, because of being unstable, wright ? -- View this message in context: http://squid-web-proxy-cache.1019090.n4.nabble.com/Squid-monitoring-access-report-shows-upto-5-to-7-cache-usage-tp4661301p4661436.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
[squid-users] kerberos ERROR: gss_accept_sec_context() failed: Unspecified GSS failure
Hi All, I have been setting up a new proxy, it needs to have Kerberos auth so that the users on the domain do not get prompted for a password - but are authenticated and this is to show in the logs. Sorry for the formatting, I tried using the bold and embed tags but they did not work It does not work for windows 7, windows 8 or windows 2008 I have it working when I try from a windows 2003 OS, and can see the auth occurring in the logs: D1jAEc= u...@domain.com.au 2013/08/05 11:48:16| squid_kerb_auth: INFO: User u...@domain.com.au authenticated However from a windows 7 or windows 8 PC, the authentication does not complete and instead there is an error: 2013/08/05 11:48:31| squid_kerb_auth: ERROR: gss_accept_sec_context() failed: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information. 2013/08/05 11:48:31| authenticateNegotiateHandleReply: Error validating user via Negotiate. Error returned 'BH gss_accept_sec_context() failed: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more information. == /var/log/squid/cache.log == 2013/08/05 11:48:31| squid_kerb_auth: INFO: User not authenticated Below is some information on the configuration: We are running 3 x 2008R2 domain controllers and 1 x 2003 domain controller, thus the domain mode is set to 2003. The krb5.conf file contains: [logging] default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log [libdefaults] default_realm = MYDOMAIN.COM.AU dns_lookup_kdc = false dns_lookup_realm = false ticket_lifetime = 24h default_keytab_name = /etc/squid/PROXY.keytab forwardable = true ; Note, because we have a 2003 domain controller, I have the 2003 uncommented below not the 2008 with AES ; for Windows 2003 default_tgs_enctypes = rc4-hmac des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5 default_tkt_enctypes = rc4-hmac des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5 permitted_enctypes = rc4-hmac des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5 ; for Windows 2008 with AES ;default_tgs_enctypes = aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 rc4-hmac des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5 ;default_tkt_enctypes = aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 rc4-hmac des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5 ;permitted_enctypes = aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 rc4-hmac des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5 [realms] MYDOMAIN.COM.AU = { kdc = kdc1.mydomain.com.au kdc = kdc2.mydomain.com.au kdc = kdc3.mydomain.com.au kdc = kdc4.mydomain.com.au admin_server = kdc1.mydomain.com.au default_domain = mydomain.com.au } [domain_realm] .mydomain.com.au = MYDOMAIN.COM.AU mydomain.com.au = MYDOMAIN.COM.AU The squid.conf contains the following custom settings: auth_param negotiate program /usr/lib64/squid/squid_kerb_auth -i -d -s HTTP/proxy.mydoamin.com.au auth_param negotiate children 10 auth_param negotiate keep_alive on auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours acl ad_auth proxy_auth REQUIRE http_access allow ad_auth http_access allow localnet (Note: I would like to get rid of the http_access allow localnet, but even on 2003 when the auth works - internet access is denied without this line) My /etc/sysconfig/squid file has the following custom lines: KRB5_KTNAME=/etc/squid/PROXY.keytab export KRB5_KTNAME when I ran this command, the keytab was generated successfully: msktutil -c -b CN=COMPUTERS -s HTTP/proxy.mydomain.com.au -h proxy.mydomain.com.au -k /etc/squid/PROXY.keytab --computer-name PROXYK --upn HTTP/proxy.mydomain.com.au --server dc1.mydomain.com.au --verbose the permissions on the keytab are below which should be fine: -rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 1430 Aug 5 08:33 /etc/squid/PROXY.keytab In Summary, the fact windows 2003 works and gets authenticated shows to me that Kerberos is working, why wont windows 2008, 7 or 8 works? Thanks, Glenn