RE: [squid-users] google misses with Squid - major problem

From: Chris Robertson <crobertson@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:07:47 -0800

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Odhiambo Washington [mailto:wash@wananchi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 6:26 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] google misses with Squid - major problem
>
>
>
> I am having a strange problem with Squid. I run 2.5STABLE{9|10} in
> a couple servers for my clients. The boxes are all FreeBSD. Squid
> is run in acceleration mode since the boxes do transparent proxying.
>
> The boxes run at different locations. There are like 7 of them so far.
>
> Variously, users on those networks have contacted me with reports that
> they cannot access google (Google redirects us to google.co.ke coz we
> are in Kenya).
>
> The disturbing thing is that the boxes have worked before without any
> problems, but after some time I have received these reports, from 4
> sites! This is what shows in the access.log when this happens:
>
> 1120452181.031 428 192.168.4.14 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120458625.447 1403 192.168.4.37 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120541558.804 661 192.168.4.37 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120541568.228 341 192.168.4.37 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120555568.628 424 192.168.4.14 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120555587.197 357 192.168.4.14 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120555605.520 406 192.168.4.14 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120624519.863 2989 192.168.4.17 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120624523.116 315 192.168.4.17 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120624611.201 508 192.168.4.17 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
> 1120644171.539 493 192.168.4.29 TCP_MISS/503 1443 GET http://www.google.co.ke/ - NONE/- text/html
>
>
> What could be the cause of this? Poisoned cache or what?
>
>
>
> -Wash

What does the Squid error say for that page (what error do browsers see when using the proxy to get to www.google.co.ke)? The 503 error is cached (given the NONE in the 9th column), but that can be given for a number of reasons (Connection Failed, No DNS Entry, Permission Denied (on web server), actual server error, etc.). Put a request out to your clients to get a screen capture of the error.

Chris
Received on Tue Jul 12 2005 - 16:07:51 MDT

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