Re: [squid-users] Squid error

From: Craig Skinner <craig.skinner@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:26:40 +0100

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 05:34:03AM -0700, tosin oyenusi wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Please assist.Users behind my squid proxy(version
> 2.5)cannot do a successful ping to addresses on the
> internet e.g www.yahoo.com etc. It comes with this
> error: "ping request could not find host
> www.yahoo.com, please check the name and try again".
> when i use the IP it replies with "request timed out".
> The port I use on squid is 2880 and I do not have
> firewall configured. The irony is that though this
> addresses cannot be pinged, but can be surfed. Please
> help out. i need to be able to ping on clients behind
> my squid server.
>

Squid is not an ICMP proxy, it is a HTTP proxy.

You need to configure your packet filter.
Received on Mon Oct 15 2007 - 07:26:47 MDT

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