Re: Squid keeps opening my ISDN link

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Bjorn Graabek wrote:

> I'm using Squid 2.2Stable4 on a Red Hat 6.0 system. My Internet link is via
> an ISDN router.
>
> My network is actually extremely small, consisting of 2 machines only. I
> often notice after a session surfing the Internet, that the router keeps
> calling the ISP every 2 minutes (the router is set to disconnect after 1 1/2
> minutes of no activity. The router monitoring program shows the source IP
> address to be that of the machine running Squid, the destination port is 80
> and the destination IP address is always the last web site that I've
> visited. But this will go on and on after I've closed down any web browsers
> running on the client PC's. Eventually it does stop (last time after about 8
> minutes or so), but I haven't been monitoring this closely enough to tell
> how long this will go on for. If I turn the router off, wait 5-10 minutes
> and turn the router on again it won't happen until some other time after
> I've been surfing. One guess could of course be that there is some element
> of the visited web page that wasn't completely downloaded, but in all cases
> my browser has been satisfied that the complete page was downloaded. Living
> in Denmark, every call to the ISP costs money, and Squid was actually
> supposed to make the Internet faster and cheaper. What might be causing
> this?

check your access.log for HTTP requests that your browser may be making.

Also I suggest running tcpdump on the Squid host to see what kind
of packets it may be sending out.

Duane W.
Received on Thu Jan 13 2000 - 14:10:02 MST