Re: [squid-users] Squid is blocking access to some BBC news sites

From: Jason Bassett <jason_bassett@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:36:10 +0000

Hello

Via the webmin interface I turned on/off "X_Forwarded_For?".

Via the squid.conf file i tried "forwarded_for" set to both yes and no.

Our IP address range is the internal range of 10.146.*

Jason

>From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>
>To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
>Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid is blocking access to some BBC news sites
>Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:08:04 +0100
>
>On 05.01 11:30, Jason Bassett wrote:
> > By the forwarded_for setting, do you mean the "X-Forwarded-For header?",
>i
> > have tried this on and off but no change. I can not see a
>"forwarded_for"
> > option on its own.
>
>here it is:
>http://squid.visolve.com/squid/squid24s1/miscellaneous.htm#forwarded_for
>
>What exactly did you turn on and off and how?
>
> > >From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>
> > >To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> > >Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid is blocking access to some BBC news
>sites
> > >Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:49:07 +0100
> > >
> > >On 05.01 10:22, Jason Bassett wrote:
> > >> Clicking many of these links results in a greyish BBC page stating
> > >> "We're sorry. The content you requested is available for UK users
> > >> only.". We are in the UK to this page should appear.
> > >>
> > >> Bypassing SQUID completely, resolves this issue.
> > >
> > >I guess you use IPs from private ranges on your network (10.*,
>192.168.* or
> > >172.16-31.*). If so, try setting forwarded_for to off, and if that
>helps,
> > >it's probably a bug on their page that should be reported.
>
>Are you using IP's from this ranges on your network?
>
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