[squid-users] icmp6 error in squid 3.2.[456]

2013-01-10 Thread alex sharaz
Hi all, I'm running squid 3.2.x on a 64b bit Ubuntu box configured to support both IPv4 and IPv6. When starting I get 2013/01/10 13:53:31 kid1| Set Current Directory to /usr/local/squid/var/cache/squid 2013/01/10 13:53:31 kid1| Loaded Icons. 2013/01/10 13:53:31 kid1| HTCP Disabled. 2013/01/10

[squid-users] vanishing coordinator process in squid 3.2

2012-02-02 Thread alex sharaz
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[squid-users] FATAL: xcalloc: Unable to allocate 4282908673 blocks of 1 bytes! now appearing in 3.1.18

2012-01-13 Thread alex sharaz
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[squid-users] Assertion failed error causing worker process to restart

2012-01-12 Thread alex sharaz
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[squid-users] assertion failed: comm.cc:1255: "isOpen(fd)" when shutting down squid 3.2 snapshot

2012-01-12 Thread alex sharaz
Hi, excerpt from cache.log when running /usr/local/squid/sbin/squid -k shutdown 2012/01/12 10:45:59 kid7| Open FD READ/WRITE 82 apps.facebook.com:443 2012/01/12 10:45:59 kid7| Open FD READ/WRITE 83 apps.facebook.com:443 2012/01/12 10:45:59 kid7| Open FD READ/WRITE 84 http://s0.2mdn.net/

[squid-users] Silly warning about over disk limits

2012-01-11 Thread alex sharaz
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[squid-users] receiving email from sqid users list

2012-01-11 Thread alex sharaz
Not a squid query but I was under the impression that I should receive emails from the squid list having subscribed to it. At the moment the only way I can see if anyone has replied to a posting is to use a browser to look at the mail archive . who would I report this to? rgds Alex

[squid-users] Re:Squid 3.2 snapshot ... vanishing processes

2012-01-10 Thread alex sharaz
Well, managed to strip out all the comment and most blank lines in the config. This is still happening help!! Here's the config file auth_param basic program /usr/local/squid/libexec/basic_pam_auth -o auth_param basic children 10 auth_param basic realm wwwcache3-east Note: Your UserName must

[squid-users] Squid 3.2 snapshot ... vanishing processes

2012-01-06 Thread alex sharaz
Running squid 3.2 on a number of machines. Gradually the worker process die with the FATAL xalloc message shown below. Config at bottom of email. Then have to clear out cache directory,recreate and restart squid. Usually wait till there only 1 or 2 workers left and then do the lot. Would se

[squid-users] 3.2.0.14 latest snapshot crashing

2012-01-06 Thread alex sharaz
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[squid-users] squid 3.2 URL too large Segment violation

2012-01-06 Thread alex sharaz
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[squid-users] filtering out cache.log messages in Squid 3.2

2012-01-04 Thread alex sharaz
Hi, I'm running a number of 3.2 caches behind a hardware load balancer that performs health checks every 30 seconds by doing a "head http://< non resolvable FQDN>/fred.txt" and expecting a 503 status code to be returned from the server. If it gets this, real traffic is passed to the cache

[squid-users] getting assertion failed: mem.cc:205: "MemPools[type]" in squid 3.2.0.14

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Sharaz
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[squid-users] getting assertion failed: CommCalls.h:165: "dp" squid 3.2.0.14

2011-12-19 Thread Alex Sharaz
Chaps, Getting the following on squid 3.2.0.14 systems Shutdown: NTLM authentication. 2011/12/19 13:17:38 kid9| Shutdown: Negotiate authentication. 2011/12/19 13:17:38 kid9| Shutdown: Digest authentication. 2011/12/19 13:17:38 kid9| Shutdown: Basic authentication. 2011/12/19 13:18:09 kid9| Shutt

[squid-users] URL parsing crashing squid 3.2.0.13... snapshot

2011-12-08 Thread alex sharaz
Hi, 2011/12/08 10:05:13 kid5| Starting Squid Cache version 3.2.0.13-20111206-r11454 for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu... 2011/12/08 10:05:13 kid5| Process ID 6007 2011/12/08 10:05:13 kid5| Process Roles: worker 2011/12/08 10:05:13 kid5| With 49152 file descriptors available 2011/12/08 10:05:13 kid5

[squid-users] Error on latest squid 3.2 snapshot:Unable to allocate 18446744073638813067 blocks of 1 bytes!

2011-11-28 Thread alex sharaz
2011/11/28 16:49:16 kid2| Starting Squid Cache version 3.2.0.13-2027-r11436 for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu... 2011/11/28 16:49:16 kid2| Process ID 10575 2011/11/28 16:49:16 kid2| Process Roles: worker 2011/11/28 16:49:16 kid2| With 49152 file descriptors available 2011/11/28 16:49:16 kid2| Ini

[squid-users] squid 3.2 failure

2011-11-25 Thread alex sharaz
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[squid-users] Problem with latest squid 3.2 snapshot

2011-11-24 Thread alex sharaz
d works just fine. Help !! Rgds Alex == Time for another Macmillan Cancer Support event. This time its the 12 day Escape to Africa challenge View route at http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=203779866436035016780.00049e867720273b73c39&z=8 Please sponsor me at http://www.justgiving.com/Alex-Sharaz

[squid-users] Issues with rsyslog and squid 3.1.16

2011-11-21 Thread Alex Sharaz
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[squid-users] Assertion failure in squid 3.1.15

2011-10-19 Thread Alex Sharaz
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[squid-users] netdbExchangeHandleReply: corrupt data, aborting

2011-02-28 Thread Alex Sharaz
Sent this out a while back. Don't think I got any replies. Anyway, Still happening but now with squid 3.1.10/3.1.11 I'd like to do a phased upgrade to 3.1.x but don;t want to try it if I'm still getting these netdb errors Rgds Alex Hi, For a while now I've been running a squid 2.7stable7 s

[squid-users] Assertion failed message then squid restart on 3.1.10 and 3.1.11

2011-02-10 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi, Looking for hints as to how to resolve the above problem. Occasionally I get 2011/02/10 09:25:42| assertion failed: htcp.cc:1350: "sz >= 0" 2011/02/10 09:25:52| Starting Squid Cache version 3.1.11 for x86_64- unknown-linux-gnu... Messages appearing in my cache.log. The server in questio

[squid-users] netdbExchangeHandleReply: corrupt data, aborting

2011-02-10 Thread Alex Sharaz
Sent this out a while back. Don't think I got any replies. Anyway, Still happening but now with squid 3.1.10/3.1.11 I'd like to do a phased upgrade to 3.1.x but don;t want to try it if I'm still getting these netdb errors Rgds Alex Hi, For a while now I've been running a squid 2.7stable7 s

[squid-users] squid2.5.stable8 cache.log messages

2005-02-15 Thread Alex Sharaz
Chaps, I've just upgraded to squid.2.5.STABLE8 and my cache.log file has loads of these messages Should I be bothered? What can I do to stop them from happening? TIA Alex 2005/02/15 11:47:20| httpReadReply: Excess data from "GET http://www.luvexchange .com/luvexchange/getthin.cfm" 2005/02/15 11

[squid-users] automatic windows updates

2005-01-12 Thread Alex Sharaz
Chaps, For a long time now I've blocked direct http/s access to the Internet from out site and forced everyone to go via our web caches. This has been working just fine until recently when automatic updates stated failing. Basically, you can check to see if there are any updates and what they ar

Re: [squid-users] providing a secure basic authentication

2004-09-23 Thread Alex Sharaz
--On 23 September 2004 12:49 +0200 Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Alex Sharaz wrote: This sounds interesting, given that almost every man and his dog is using IE or mozilla/firefox anyone know if they suport proxy connections over ssl? Not last time I

Re: [squid-users] providing a secure basic authentication

2004-09-23 Thread Alex Sharaz
--On 22 September 2004 19:42 +0200 Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Alex Sharaz wrote: Is there any way I can perform the authentication scheme over a secure connection Pick one (or two): * Use of Digest authentication. * Use of NTLM authentication. hmmm

[squid-users] providing a secure basic authentication

2004-09-22 Thread Alex Sharaz
Chaps, I'm currently using a basic auth scheme on our squid caches that uses a radius authentication module From the squid FAQ "NOTE: The name and password are encoded using ``base64'' (See section 11.1 of RFC 2616). However, base64 is a binary-to-text encoding only, it does NOT encrypt the inf

[squid-users] caching windows updates

2004-08-26 Thread Alex Sharaz
Chaps, A while back I thought I saw some e-mails discussing the possibility of caching windows updates files on squid servers and there was mention of some code/scripts to do this. Needless to say I've lost that particular messaage. Can someone point me in the right direction please TIA Alex S

[squid-users] problems writing squid logs into a database

2004-06-21 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi all, i've been working on a perl script to write the contents of access.log into a DB2 database. The script was originally one by Eugene Chernyshev [ This is a part of Squid2MySQL accounting system. CopyRight 2001 by Eugene V. Chernyshev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] but modified a bit.

Re: [squid-users] MySql Authorization

2004-01-22 Thread Alex Sharaz
Yup there is a squid2mysql package which although primarily for getting access log entries into a database also has a mysql authentication module you can use Alex --On 22 January 2004 10:28 +0100 Riccardo Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would like to know if exist some kind of extern

Re: [squid-users] "Impossible keep-alive header"

2004-01-14 Thread Alex Sharaz
Yup just downloaded the latest 2.5S4 snapshot and installed it on one of my caches and they started. All the other caches are o.k. alex --On 14 January 2004 10:37 -0500 Steve Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm suddenly getting a lot of these errors. Here's an example: 2004/01/14 10:29:35|

[squid-users] Anyone know if the buffered_logs config command also applies to acces.log?

2003-12-19 Thread Alex Sharaz
or just the cache.log TIA Alex

Re: [squid-users] problem with squid and squid2mysql - update

2003-12-18 Thread Alex Sharaz
eCleanLogs: Operation aborted. CPU Usage: 1.060 seconds = 0.540 user + 0.520 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 438 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): = so what's the next step? any suggestions appreciated alex --On 18 December 2003 1

[squid-users] problem with squid and squid2mysql

2003-12-18 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, Got a small problem here with squid running in conjunction with squid2mysql on a linux box. Config is RH 9 system running as squid cache with a back end mysql database runnning on another machine. Perl 5.08 installed with dbi module, mysql drivers and perl::ldap Created a special file

[squid-users] using squid2mysql

2003-12-08 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, o.k. i've replaced my squid_rad_auth authentication program on one of my test caches with the squid2mysql authenticator ( having changed sqauth as the database is on another machine) and added a dummy user into the mysql db "auth" table I can now authenticate to the cache using the sqa

Re: [squid-users] squid radius auth

2003-12-08 Thread Alex Sharaz
I use Steel Belted Radius by a company called Funk software AFAIK this server is almost the defacto standard radius server these days did have to do some "tweaking" of the phantom record settings to cope with multiple squid caches but other than that it just works Alex --On 08 December 2003 12:2

[squid-users] multiple access.log files

2003-12-08 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, I'm in the process of evaluating squid2mysql on one of my test servers. Unfortunately the php prog that actually writes the info into the mysql database occasionally crashes. As the "log file" squid uses is actually a fifo I don't have a copy of the access.log message that caused the pr

[squid-users] reiserfs or ext3 ?

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi all, quick question, I'm running my 3 caches using ext3 file systems. I've noticed a number of people recommending ReiserFS. Should I consider moving to ReiserFS? What advantages would it give me over ext3? TIA Alex Sent using Mulberry 3.01a

RE: [squid-users] probably a simple question

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Sharaz
Yup I do that as well, but if i'm testing a new web cache out I don;t want to have to keep changing my auto-proxy config file that is load balanced over 2 machines and services the whole university every time I want to access a different cache. Anyway the way to do it in ie6 is to add a wildcar

[squid-users] anyone using pam_radius to implement basic authentication

2003-10-21 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all I am currently using a squid radius authentication module with my caches and am considering moving to a pam_radius setup. Has anyone used pam_radius with a squid cache? alex Sent using Mulberry 3.01a

[squid-users] probably a simple question

2003-10-16 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi all, got what is probably a simple question:- 99% of the time I use an auto proxy config script to select whether to go direct to a site or via my caches The othe 1% of the time I configure an explicit web cache ( for testing purposes) in IE6 and then specify an exclusion list for *.hull.ac.

[squid-users] max request header size

2003-06-14 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, i was browsing through one of my cache.log files and noticed a message saying that "the request header size" had been exceeded. Given that it was set to the default of 10K and the conf file says that its usually 512 bytes ish I wondered 1). Anyone else seeing these messages 2). Having

[squid-users] problems with www.channel4.com site

2003-06-09 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, Got a really strange one here. Since last Friday we've been experiencing a problem with www.channel4.com ( ip address 212.62.19.212) which is causing extreme heartach for our nokia checkpoint 1 firewall. I've got 3 web caches connected to a foundry systems serveriron ( server load bal

Re: [squid-users] trimming contents of access.log

2003-06-05 Thread Alex Sharaz
ibre.net.pk | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) "All I want is a few minutes alone with the source code for the universe and a quick recompile." - Original Message ---

[squid-users] trimming contents of access.log

2003-06-05 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, quick question, I'm running a number of web caches connected to a foundry ServerIronxL server load balancing device. The ServerIron performs L7 health checks every 30 seconds ( which I'm planning to reduce to about 109 secs) The only problem is that of course the access logs has got en

[squid-users] X-Originate-IP still not working in 2.5.STABLE3

2003-05-28 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi, A while back I reported that even though I'd configured squid to pass the clients IP address through the cache via the X-Originate-IP header variable squid was always inserting its own address in the field. I've just tried sending myself a mail message via hotmail via a 2.5.STABLE3 box and

Re: [squid-users] temporarily disabling (forbidden) digest from .....

2003-05-27 Thread Alex Sharaz
well I'm now seeing a lot of CD_.. HIT entries in my access.log file which weren't there before --On 27 May 2003 18:31 +0200 Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tis 2003-05-27 klockan 17.59 skrev Alex Sharaz: many thanks for your help You were correct in saying it wa

Re: [squid-users] temporarily disabling (forbidden) digest from .....

2003-05-27 Thread Alex Sharaz
36 +0200 Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: men 2003-05-26 klockan 10.24 skrev Alex Sharaz: Hi all, The above message is staring to bother me a bit. i've got 3 web caches behind a foundry server load balancing box and although I've switched on digests, each cache comes up with &q

Re: [squid-users] IE doesn't resolve for the first time

2003-03-31 Thread Alex Sharaz
The fix is now included in the latest fixpack for IE6 so you shouldn;t have to wait for a special one alex --On 31 March 2003 02:51 -0800 Fredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Thx for the tip. I called MS Support and I'm still waiting for that "hotfix" (they said it can take one day to send i

Re: [squid-users] using 2 sets of basic authentication in squid

2003-03-27 Thread Alex Sharaz
tances. Regards Henrik tor 2003-03-27 klockan 12.12 skrev Alex Sharaz: unfortunately the userid would be the same. The only unique parameter would be the callers ip subnet --On 27 March 2003 12:02 +0100 Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tor 2003-03-27 klockan 11.43 skrev Alex Shara

Re: [squid-users] using 2 sets of basic authentication in squid

2003-03-27 Thread Alex Sharaz
unfortunately the userid would be the same. The only unique parameter would be the callers ip subnet --On 27 March 2003 12:02 +0100 Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tor 2003-03-27 klockan 11.43 skrev Alex Sharaz: can you define/run two "basic" authentication schemes

[squid-users] using 2 sets of basic authentication in squid

2003-03-27 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi all, quick question I'm testing out squid authentication on a number of class c subnets here with specific ACL statements that indicate authentication is required on a given subnet. At the moment i'm using pam/ldap to implement the authentication and everything seems to work fine. For vari

[squid-users] using pam_radius module with squid

2003-03-26 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi all, I've been running squid configured to use pam_auth for a while now in conjunction with an ldap authentication (pam) module which works fine. For local reasons I'd like the pam auth procedure to also authenticate against a radius server I've got. So I downloaded and compiled a pam_

[squid-users] squid compile options

2003-03-18 Thread Alex Sharaz
A long long time ago I built up a small script that ran configure with all the squid options i wanted to use In this script I also had a CFLAGS statement specifying NUMTHREADS=30 I can't for the like of me remember what I put it in for. :-((( I'm running aufs on my squid boxes alex Sent using M

Re: [squid-users] Queue congestion

2003-03-06 Thread Alex Sharaz
overloaded and you need one or two more drives.. Regards Henrik tor 2003-03-06 klockan 16.51 skrev Alex Sharaz: I'm seeing a few error messages in my squid 2.5.s20030.. caches saying WARNING squidaio_queue congestion Anything I can do about it? alex Sent using Mulberry 3.01a -- Henrik N

[squid-users] Queue congestion

2003-03-06 Thread Alex Sharaz
I'm seeing a few error messages in my squid 2.5.s20030.. caches saying WARNING squidaio_queue congestion Anything I can do about it? alex Sent using Mulberry 3.01a

[squid-users] multiple squid cache configurations

2003-03-01 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi, At the moment I have 4 squid caches connected to a single Foundry Networks ServerironXL via 100Mbit full duplex links. The ServerIron is connected into our backbone network via Gigabit link. Each of the squid caches has 2 100Mbit ethernet ports on the motherboard As the above confgig has

[squid-users] Calculating cache_dir L1 parameter

2003-02-28 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, A while back I sent out a message regarding some config issues for my squid caches one of which related to the cache_dir config file parameter. someone kindly sent me back an equation to be used in calculating the L1 parameter for a given size of cache disk. Unfortunately guess who has

[squid-users] couple of squid questions

2003-02-25 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, couple of questions re squid config My squid hardware is based round systems with a 1.8Zenon cpu 4Gbytes of ram and 4 36Gbyte disks for cache storage running RH 8.0 with the 2.4.18-24smp version of the kernel. Each disk has 1 partition set up cachedir ufs <90% of disk space> 256 256 wha

[squid-users] radius authentication for squid

2003-02-22 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi people, a couple of messages ago there was some talk about using radius authentication with squid If anyone has got some s/w, documentation etc I'd be obliged alex

[squid-users] advice on squid configuration for specific application

2003-02-17 Thread Alex Sharaz
hi all, Got a small problem here that i'm looking for advice on. Our university is to set up a "portal service" here and wants to have access to it frontended by our web caches, the main reason being that I've configured the caches to selectively require authentication based upon the source su

[squid-users] What are these sites?

2003-02-17 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi all I've just brought on line webalizer based web page for our 4 squid caches and for the last 3 days the "top 30" urls section have been swamped with entries like http://207.46.110.X/gateway/gateway.dll and http://38.144.57.X/Update.htm and http://64.12.163.X/data I'd love to know what t

Re: [squid-users] Squid 2.5 stable 1 and basic auth/ldap

2003-02-13 Thread Alex Sharaz
Quoting Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alex Sharaz wrote: > > > > Quoting Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Nobody has written one for the FAQ yet, but there is some documentation > > > in the documentation to ea

Re: [squid-users] Squid 2.5 stable 1 and basic auth/ldap

2003-02-12 Thread Alex Sharaz
Quoting Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Nobody has written one for the FAQ yet, but there is some documentation > in the documentation to each helper (authentication and/or group > helper). > > If you plan on using groups I strongly advise to look into the group > helper of 2.5.STABLE1-20

[squid-users] Justification for authentication at the squid cache level

2003-02-11 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi all, I've been running a number of squid caches for a few years here and am now looking at enforcing authentication at the cache level. Needless to say I've got a lot of people now saying "why would you want to do that" " not another login prompt" etc. While I've got my own ideas as to why

[squid-users] problems with ie 6 and proxy auth on squid

2003-02-10 Thread Alex Sharaz
Hi all, I've got a small problem with IE 6 and proxy authentication to a squid 2.5 stable1 set of caches. I should say at this point that mozilla, netscape 6.2/7.0/7.0.1 and phoenix 0.5 all work correctly Descn:- I have 4 squid 2.5stable1 caches connected to a foundry serveriron load balanc