[squid-users] Re: Squid problems with Windows Update

From: Abdock <abdock@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:01:02 +0300

just an update,

i loaded with squid2.5 stable5 and everything is ok, looks the squid2.5stable6 has some problems, or has some settings...

thanks.
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From: Adam Aube aaube01@baker.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:38:11 +0300
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: [squid-users] Re: Squid problems with Windows Update

> Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > Yesterday, Microsoft announced a bunch of new bug fixes, which nearly
> > every Windows machine on the Net is eagerly downloading. Unfortunately, a
> > client of mine is having problems with a transparent Squid proxy with
> > Windows machines behind it. Apparently, Windows Update fetches updates in
> > chunks, about 2K at a time.
>
> > In any case, each time a client requests a 2K chunk, the Squid proxy is
> > re-fetching an entire file that's 2 MB or larger from a parent cache.
>
> Does the same thing occur when the proxy is not running transparently?
>
> Adam
>
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