Re: [squid-users] unusual TCP_DENIED situation

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:32:27 +1300

On 2013-11-21 04:39, Mark Redding wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I run the network for a UK boarding school (1000 pupils and around 400
> staff) and use a combination of squid and dansguardian to provide time
> controlled and filtered web access for all users. From time to time a
> number of users have reported receiving squid access denied messages -
> though if they try accessing the same site a minute or two later they
> get through to it without any issue. Is anyone able to shed light on
> the
> condition under which a TCP_DENIED/403 message may be returned by squid
> (apart from the obvious acl based ones).
>
> My configuration is thus :
>
> FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p3 amd64 running squid-3.1.19

I suggest upgrading to 3.3 release before going any further with this.
The old series have a few very strange bugs in auth behaviour which are
fixed by a large overhaul in recent releases (you could end up putting a
lot of time and effort in before finding the simple upgrade fixes your
issue).

Amos
Received on Wed Nov 20 2013 - 21:32:36 MST

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