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

From: Adam Aube <aaube01@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:18:05 -0400

Abdock wrote:
> Adam Aube wrote:
>> 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?

> i loaded with squid2.5 stable5 and everything is ok, looks the
> squid2.5stable6 has some problems, or has some settings...

Did you use the same configuration file with both versions?

Adam
Received on Thu Jul 15 2004 - 14:15:51 MDT

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