Hi All,

I am new to linux administration and I am currently having a problem running Squid and Dansguardian on our new server. In our previous server, Squid and Dansguardian seems to be running fine but when one of our former administrators transferred the applications to another machine the apps seemed to malfunction.

The issue is, Squid seems to be running on the new server:

[root@server init.d]# ps -aux | grep squid
root 18048 0.0 0.0 7752 1096 ? Ss 15:50 0:00 squid -D
squid 18050 0.2 0.2 9980 5924 ? S 15:50 0:00 (squid) -D
squid 18052 0.0 0.0 1512 224 ? Ss 15:50 0:00 (unlinkd)
root 18055 0.0 0.0 3912 664 pts/1 S+ 15:50 0:00 grep squid

Now, when we access any website, nothing is logged to the log files of squid at /usr/local/squid/logs/access.log or even at /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log.

The content of squid.conf are as follows:
http_port 3128
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
cache deny QUERY
cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 1024 16 256
access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320
acl my_subnetwork src 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
acl blocked_sites dstdomain .youtube.com
http_access deny blocked_sites my_subnetwork
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all
http_reply_access allow all
icp_access allow all
cache_effective_user squid
cache_effective_group squid
coredump_dir /var/spool/squid

We also specified that youtube be blocked by squid. It doesn't seem to be working. What else do I need to check if squid is really running?

Thanks in advance!

Is your web browser pointing to the new proxy server?

On the proxy server, run:
Do you see any activity in that netstat session when you try to visit a web page? If not, double check (again) your web browser settings. If those look OK, run the following from your workstation:
What does that tell you? If it times out, something is likely filtering traffic to that host/port.