Hello to the community! I’m encountering a strange issue with the proxy server. I am using a RED + GREEN configuration with a parent proxy on RED and IPS disabled. Web traffic with authentication on the parent proxy works perfectly; however, APT does not work at all. The Ubuntu machines in the G…

The accelerator should cache some *.deb files on the IPFire disc at first download and should use the cache if a second client try to fetch the same file. I fear this is buggy with the currect squid version. Looks like we loose the next proxy feature…

Hi, To clarify my previous post, the content filters and file extension filters are not enabled! Below is an example in the /var/log/squid/access.log file: of manually downloading a .deb file and a .tar.xz file from the same site. [Proxy] Thank you very much for your suggestions!

[image] ste willi: parent proxy on RED and IPS disabled. Are you sure IPS is not on? Look in The IPS rules and turn off the ones pertaining to APT.

Hi, Yes, IPS appears to be stopped! [suricata] [proxy2] [proxy3] No filtering url and file extensions! [proxy4] Any ideas? Thanks for your suggestions!

[image] Web Proxy and apt-get Web Proxy, URL Filter & Update Accelerator Not sure why the web proxy is blocking services like “apt” Web Proxy is enabled on Green, Transparent proxy is disabled. Can’t update a linux box doing sudo apt updateget blocked - co…

Is the update accelerator enabled? If yes try to disable it.

Thank you very much @hvacguy for your response. I had read that post before posting mine, but it didn’t help me…

Thank you very much @arne_f , it works correctly now!!! But why? Is disabling the update accelerator detrimental to performance if I have many computers (>100) on the green area using the proxy?

The Update Accelerator is in fact detrimental, if many computers load different files. I don’t remember how exactly the identity of downloads is determined. An item consists of download URL and file name. If the URL or name differs for different clients, each download is made twice ( for the cache a…

Thank you for your responses! I was stuck on this APT issue for a few days! I’m glad to see that the community is so efficient!

Problem with APT behind the proxy

Network Web Proxy, URL Filter & Update Accelerator

hvacguy (Shaun HVAC) 9 October 2024 09:33 5

Perhaps this may help.