It looks like ur client has been infected with some new virus like Welchia. It generates random packet out to port 80 and easy to make squid hang :> like http://aaa/ http://aab/ or etc ...
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 09:22 AM To: Anthony Ogburn Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid stops responding after a number of requests On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Anthony Ogburn wrote: > The problem is that after running squid for a period of time, it stops > responding. Squid is still running and accepting connections, which > are logged to access.log, but it never answers back. A restart of > squid will clear the problem, but after a number of restarts, the > entire system must be rebooted to correct the problem. It appears the > problem is tied to the DNS. Running "squidclient mgr:idns" shows an > increasing number of DNS queries, but no responses. Use tcpdump to inspect what the DNS traffic looks like. Also verify this on the DNS server (assuming you have a local DNS server). >From your description it sounds like there is a firewall problem blocking DNS access after a while. Restarting Squid may help to such problems as a new UDP port is then allocated for DNS queries. Regards Henrik
