Make sure that a firewall running on that machine allows connections to localhost.
Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Liquid Crystal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 7:59 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [squid-users] What could be the reason? "client: ERROR: Cannot > connect to localhost:8080: Connection refused" > > > Hi guys, > > When trying the following from the localhost: > > ./squidclient -p 8080 http://www.netscape.com > > I get the error: > client: ERROR: Cannot connect to localhost:8080: Connection refused > > in my squid.conf I have modified: > > http_port 8080 > cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/cache 1024 16 256 > acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 > http_access allow localhost > cache_effective_user squid > cache_effective_group squid > > The access log file did NOT log that attempt! > > > I just want to run squid as a cache for testing purposes only. > Testing Squid 2.5STABLE3 on RH 9.0 > > Thanks in advance for all your inputs. > > Sincerely, > > LC > >
