Re: [squid-users] What could be the reason? "client: ERROR: Cannot connect to localhost:8080: Connection refused"

>....
> > > > > 2003/07/11 04:52:35| Ready to serve requests.
> > > >
> > > > Looks fairly normal, on which platform/os are you using squid ?
> > > >
> > > Squid 2.5STABLE3 on Linux RH 9.0
> >
> > Then on the squid box,
> >
> > % telnet localhost 8080
> >
> > Should probably give you a connection.
> >
> > As stated by someone else, make sure too, that you are not
> > contronted with firewalling problems, between your clients
> > and your squid box
> >
>
> This will not work as I don't have and I'm not willing to have telnet daemon
> running, I only have SSH.
> As for the firewalls, I have no firewall setup neither on my local squid box
> nor infront of the squid box, the squid box is directly connected on the net
> with no firewall.

 You will not need a telnet daemon running on your squid box,since in
this
 test you are connecting to the port squid is running on.
 You only need the telnet client program available.

 M.

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