RE: [squid-users] AKAMAI.NEt showing up in Squid Logs

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Hunter, Jess wrote:
I knew they did some sort of caching. My concern is that there may be
something errantly installed on the workstation that I cannot locate.  Out
of 247 Views, 45 of them are to websites while the remaining 202 are to the
AKAMAI server. So it seems like there is some sort of application that is
hammering that specific server.
windows update?
Still trying to glean more knowledge on this.
Thanks,
Jess
-----Original Message-----
From:   Chris Robertson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Friday, February 04, 2005 12:22 PM
To:     squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject:        RE: [squid-users] AKAMAI.NEt showing up in Squid Logs
-----Original Message-----
From: Hunter, Jess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 8:44 AM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] AKAMAI.NEt showing up in Squid Logs
After reviewing my squid logs I noticed that one of the users kept
access
the following site:  a248.e.akamai.net:443. I ran Anti-virus and Spybot
S&D
but it did not show anything on the workstation.  I have tried to
research
the removal of this errant cache service and cannot find any removal
instructions.  I know this is a little off topic, but has anyone else
had
this same issue pop up in there Squid logs and if you have, how did you
correct it.
Thanks In Advance
I'm not sure if you are aware, but akamai is a distributed caching service
that a lot of sites and ISPs use to distribute content.  An example is
Apple.com's movie trailers.  It would not surprise me if one of the larger
banks (or something like eBay) is using akamai to serve images for their
secure pages.  If you want to block this request, something like the
following should work (assuming you have the CONNECT method acl still in
your squid.conf):
acl akamai dst_domain .akamai.net
http_access deny CONNECT akamai
This will block all secure requests to akamai.  Be ready for calls if you
implement this.
Chris
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