Squid outage fail-over If you run wccp through a Cisco router and your Squid Cache falls over the router will fail over to serving pages directly. Seamless fail-over is good but So you may never notice that your Squid proxy has stopped responding. So you lose the...

Update: I kept getting ACCESS_DENIED and ">Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect. ERR_ACCESS_DENIED" I added cache_mgr emailaddress@example.com...

I recently went to http://whatismyipaddress.com and And under the front page under "Proxy Server Detected!" I saw the internal hostname of my squid proxy. Which may or may not be a security problem (giving away an internal domain name and hostname). So inside...

I recently went from having a Linux CentOS release 5.3 gateway firewall running Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE21 to a Cisco 877 ADSL gateway. Very quickly my users complained of r_e_a_l_l_y slow internet. With only the Cisco 877 in place every single request was...