Lorenzo,
I had exactly the same problem (it's part of the "nature" of using a dynamic
IP address from your ISP as far as I understand). I got help from people
here on the list with the dynamic IP address problem but I never got it
working reliable.
Squid is a proxy for http requests only.
I installed a very simple proxy for other requests, called 'Fastforward'. As
far as I remember it's from the same site where wvdial comes from. I believe
it came from www.worldvisions.ca.
It works as a proxy server on your Internet gateway machine, sitting beside
squid.
Very simple: In it's .conf file, you just define a table with mappings for
internal-IP:port = external-IP:port like
192.168.0.13:110 = your.ISPs.pop3.IP:110
and you point your LAN clients email client to the internal address:port on
your gateway. Same with the client's smtp setting. I also use it for my news
client (port 119). It's very simple, no monitoring/accounting at all but it
works for me that way.
Regards,
Michael Doerner
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lorenzo Viola
> Sent: Saturday, 18 September 1999 22:14
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: squid ?
>
>
> Hi list, I'm one of the thread of the diald first packet lost on
> demand.....
> perhaps I've lost some mailings about squid, but here is the question....
> to place a local dns server is good enough to make the browser-client
> retry a connection after the first lost packets, but seems not
> good to make
> a mail-client retry...
> here is the question :
> is it possible to use the dnsserver feature also for the mail connections
> (ports 110/25) ?
> could it cache the packets and retry a second time after the firt drop ?
> and if possible, what should change from a standard squid
> installation from
> RH6.0 ?
>
> ANY help is appreciated.....
>
> Best Regards!
>
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