Re: [squid-users] Random dropping of requests

On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:33:18PM -0700, Mohsin Khan wrote:
> I had this issue once, same behavior...amazing:)
> though i never troubleshoot it as I never get a
> chance, but well what I have researched is , it could
> be like any of the client browsers that is sending
> some bad request.

There are bad requests from client browsers, but they shouldn't cause
the random drops.

> Oh now i remeber applogiies, check
> the network for any virus, are you using any
> masqurading technique, is that squid box is also
> acting as a gateway, When this happens, just plug out
> the Network Cable you should see a certain drop in CPU
> load, that means squid is processing some thing that
> is coming through network, I am sure applying a
> sniffer and checking for Virus in your network will
> solve this issue. And for debugging point of view,
> keep the simplest squid.conf

It's an ISP and most of the customers are those that we can't do much
about when it comes to viruses. We have to live with that, but it still
doesn't explain the complete loss of service.

Since we've had to take the proxy offline for now, I'll try doing a
fresh install of a decent server level distro (Slackware probably)
and run some rigorous tests on the hardware.

Thanks,

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