[squid-users] Advice needed on transparent proxy problem

Hello all,

i need some advice about the squid server i am running.

About six months ago i got involved in a project to filter websites from our
users... just the haughty stuff. We had a Linux server so i said (with a few
recommendations and after reading some stuff of the squid website) 'lets try
out squid'.

I got squid up and running and fully tested as a proxy/cache but not
transparent.

I then went live and soon realised that some of the users decided to by pass
the proxy by removing the settings from the browser. So i looked into making
it into an accelerated transparent http proxy.

that all went fine but now i have a problem, which is i am having troubles
with accessing most secure sites on the internet. For example i go to login
to my hotmail account and it returns a 'Cannot Find server or DNS Error' -
Internet Explorer!!!.

But if i try again immediately it works. My users and myself get this all
the time.

I have installed and setup squid on another server with exactly the same
setup without accelerated transparent http proxy, set the browser up to look
at the proxy on the correct port, and all works fine with that.

Now i am almost 100% sure that its something to do with the transparent
accelerated proxy, is there something like a https accelerated proxy
feature? that will fix this problem or is there a way to setup squid to be
transparent but not tell it that it is a accelerated transparent proxy...
but keep speed that comes with it?.. thinking about the last question i
think i will still have the same problem???.

Please help... as i do not want to lose squid to this!

Thanks in advance

Kamesh
Received on Mon Oct 21 2002 - 05:22:18 MDT