RE: [squid-users] It stopped denying sites!

> Davan Wong wrote:
> > Hello group,
> >
> > Something odd occurred last week. I am running squid
> 2.6stable13 on
> > several openBSD 4.2 boxes ( I manage several remote
> locations ). My
> > current ACL rules deny everything except internal company sites.
> > Well, last week one of the boxes stopped denying sites.
>
> Obvious question: what changed?

Absolutely nothing. Last time the box was touched was Nov 21st. It stopped
denying sites on Dec 18.

>
> > So users are getting everything and
> > anything they request. Everything looks like it should still be
> > working. I see no problems in any of the log files.
> >
>
> Except the fact that requests are being responded to with a
> 200 instead of a 403...

True...

>
> >
> > Any ideas why this would happen? Are there any log file
> entries I can
> > post here that would be of some help?
> >
>
> Sadly the logs don't reveal what configuration file is
> actually being used (is that a debug option?), so not much is
> going to be gleaned from the logs. You can see the current
> running configuration (if you have specified a
> cachemgr_passwd), or might try explicitly specifying the conf
> file to use when you start Squid (if you aren't already).
> Otherwise, you can increase the debugging on ACL processing (
> as seen in the FAQ entry:
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidAcl#head-57ab8844e90
60937c4a654e1aa7568f87cb25aef)
> and see if that gives you any clues.

I'll give that a try...

What I've done is stop squid, rotate the log files, then restart it. It
seems to be working as I expect it to now...

Thanks!

>
> >
> > TIA! :)
> >
> >
> > Davan Wong
> > World Health Club
> > Information Technology Department
> >
>
> Chris
>
Received on Wed Jan 02 2008 - 16:09:55 MST