Re: [squid-users] Timeouts when using squid as an FTP proxy with FileZilla?

Hi,

At 05.30 28/08/2006, Jeremy Webber wrote:

>I've been trying to use our Squid server to proxy FTP traffic.
>
>The client is FileZilla. It is configured to use the squid server
>as an HTTP 1.1 proxy.
>
>I can connect to a remote site without difficulty (yes, I have to
>enable the CONNECT method for this). The remote site has an idle
>timeout of 15 minutes.
>
>Everything works fine until I try to send a file to the remote site.
>When sending a file (FTP STOR command) the transfer is cut at
>exactly 15 minutes. FileZilla reports that it detected a timeout and
>has disconnected from the server.
>
>If I bypass the Squid server then I can send the file (which takes
>about 18 minutes to transmit) without difficulty.
>
>There doesn't appear to be a problem fetching files, only sending them.
>
>Can anyone shed any light as to possible reasons? I've RTFM and
>checked this mailing list archive but have drawn a blank so far. I
>can't see anything in our squid.conf which would cause a timeout
>when tunnelling FTP.
>
>Squid version is squid-2.5.STABLE5-42.47 (as distributed with SLES 9).

This is a known bug fixed starting from 2.5 STABLE13:
http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1459

You should upgrade your Squid installation to fix it.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Mon Aug 28 2006 - 02:02:11 MDT