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From: Tim Priebe <tim@polytechnic.edu.na>
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To: andreas.klemm.ak@bayer-ag.de
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Subject: Re: squid caching proxy behind a firewall ...
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andreas.klemm.ak@bayer-ag.de wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> My machine where I want to have squid running should speed up http and ftp
> access to internet for a few people because normal company proxy server
> are sometimes lame.
> 
> Now the problem. Squid tries to resolve hostnames into IP addresses itself.
> 
> Since it doesn
%t get the name resolution (since the box doesn
%t have internet
> access and isn
%t allowed to do DNS queries to the "world" this doesn
%t work.)
> 
> I tried several options in squid.conf, but no success.
> 
> Q: is it possible to use squid in a way, that he connects to the companies
> "real proxy server"
> proxy.company.com:80 (instead of you) and provides you a fast cache within the
> intranet ???

Yes.

I do not have the configs in front of me, but basically you can
configure it with the option noquery for the parent, ie the "real proxy
server", and then deny all direct accesses. The standard config file
explains each.

Tim.


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