Re: [squid-users] can't connect to the irc...

I was not aware that IRC is a HTTP based protocol.. Squid is only a HTTP
proxy, and as such it only works for HTTP clients.

Suggestion: Look into the concepts of masquerading/NAT and/or SOCKS. Probably
what you want in addition to Squid.

Regards
Henrik Nordstr�m

On Sunday 09 December 2001 14.24, Irvin S Panes wrote:
> eversince i setup squid as a proxy server my clients cannot connect to the
> irc. I am using mirc and had never experience this before i setup one of my
> box to act as a proxy server in my homenetwork.
>
> I did not change the defaults in the squid.conf, i just added a few acl
> lines and redirect program to squidguard. What do i need to do to allow my
> clients to access connect to the irc.

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