RE: [squid-users] Squid on a ppp box

Hi There

Treat your Proxy server as a normal pc dialing to your ISP, like:

Under your /etc/resolve.conf file, add the DNS servers your ISP provide.
This file should contain two lines

search yourdomain.com
nameserver 196.196.196.196

This will resolve the DNS problem. Make sure that the squid server can get
its own hostname, test by typing squid -z on the command line, and tail your
access.log file for errors. If it does have a problem resolving its
hostname, just edit your squid.conf file, and add your hostname:

visible_hostname proxy.yourdomain.com

Edit your /etc/hosts file, and split the hostname for localhost as well:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
196.196.196.196 proxy.yourdomain.com

Only do this if your Dial up is static, and you have the same ip every time
when you dial up. If not, just take out the second line I made in the
/etc/hosts file.

Let me know if you WANT SQUID to dial up the connection if it gets a request
or NOT.

Cause then you would have to change the

half_closed_clients off
client_lifetime 10 minutes

This is to prevent some user from browsing the net, and going to the
bathroom, and forgetting that he is connected. This would allow squid to
close a connection if not used, and not cause hang up connections. This is
just extra things I am thinking of.

Regards

Gert Brits
Senior Engineer
Technology Concepts
Tel +27 11 803 2169
Fax +27 11 803 2189
http://www.techconcepts.co.za

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Clark [mailto:bclark@eccotours.biz]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 4:38 PM
To: Gert Brits; Squid-Users
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid on a ppp box

Hi Gert

Thanks for you reply, I really appreciate it.
But my next question, it then. Will no errors be displayed etc, due to not
dns querys been resolved or no internet connection available.

Is there not a patch or a script to tell squid that the connection it not
available, or down etc.
For example (I know the two are different, but this is just an example)
A while ago I used qmail for my ppp box, I had to patch qmail and setup a
script in the ip-up.d (or down) that would tell
qmail that the link is, going down.

I know my example it a bit, lame and that im probally comparing apple to
pears, but im just trying to get all the info I can
before I try and make mission of trying to setup squid.

I do have wwwoffle on my box current;y, which works fantasticlly, but there
is no challenge in setting up the off line
cache \ proxy server

Kind Regards and thanks once again

Brent Clark

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Brits [mailto:gbrits@techconcepts.co.za]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:18 PM
To: Squid-Users
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Squid on a ppp box

Hi There

Setting it up for a ppp line is not much different. Ensure to run squid on
0.0.0.0 and not an ip address, to make it easier to work. Try and find a
cache server for your ISP, and use that as your parent server.

Let us know if you have any specific problems

Regards

Gert Brits
Senior Engineer
Technology Concepts
Tel +27 11 803 2169
Fax +27 11 803 2189
http://www.techconcepts.co.za

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Clark [mailto:bclark@eccotours.biz]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:06 PM
To: Squid-Users
Subject: [squid-users] Squid on a ppp box

Hi all

im new to the list and basically wanted to say hi and ask my first question.

Would anyone know, have a url \ link, or have experience in setting up squid
for a linux box that connects to the internet
only via ppp.

if anyone could assist, that would be most apprecitatd

Kind Regards
Brent Clark
Received on Mon Jun 21 2004 - 08:52:00 MDT