[squid-users] Re: Squid problems with Windows Update

Brett Glass wrote:

> Yesterday, Microsoft announced a bunch of new bug fixes, which nearly
> every Windows machine on the Net is eagerly downloading. Unfortunately, a
> client of mine is having problems with a transparent Squid proxy with
> Windows machines behind it. Apparently, Windows Update fetches updates in
> chunks, about 2K at a time.

> In any case, each time a client requests a 2K chunk, the Squid proxy is
> re-fetching an entire file that's 2 MB or larger from a parent cache.

Does the same thing occur when the proxy is not running transparently?

Adam
Received on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 12:38:11 MDT