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      neil
      last edited by

      I have two sites running Squid (2.7.9 v4.3.3) and Dans Guardian (2.12.0.3 v.0.1)
      About every 10-15 minutes, the logs show:

      DansGuardian: [nnnnn] Error Connecting to Proxy.

      I've tried increasing the Proxy Timeout from 30 to 40s and this has not fixed the problem.

      Any ideas as to what is causing this error and how to resolve this?

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      • marcellocM
        marcelloc
        last edited by

        Did you tried with squid3?

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        Help a community developer! ;D

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          rjcrowder
          last edited by

          @neil:

          I have two sites running Squid (2.7.9 v4.3.3) and Dans Guardian (2.12.0.3 v.0.1)
          About every 10-15 minutes, the logs show:

          DansGuardian: [nnnnn] Error Connecting to Proxy.

          I've tried increasing the Proxy Timeout from 30 to 40s and this has not fixed the problem.

          Any ideas as to what is causing this error and how to resolve this?

          In your dans config - are you connecting to Squid running on the same box as dans (i.e. localhost:3128)?

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            neil
            last edited by

            Squid is running on the same server as Dans Guardian.
            To get Dans Guardian to work with Squid, I had to set the proxy IP to the IP
            address of the server, and set the proxy port to 3128 - localhost would not work.

            I have not tried Squid3 as I was not sure how to install this 
            Can I simply install Squid3, and in doing so will this "replace" the existing Squid
            and retain the configuration, or do I need to uninstall the current Squid and then
            install Squid3?

            thanks for your replies

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              rjcrowder
              last edited by

              @neil:

              Squid is running on the same server as Dans Guardian.
              To get Dans Guardian to work with Squid, I had to set the proxy IP to the IP
              address of the server, and set the proxy port to 3128 - localhost would not work.

              I have not tried Squid3 as I was not sure how to install this 
              Can I simply install Squid3, and in doing so will this "replace" the existing Squid
              and retain the configuration, or do I need to uninstall the current Squid and then
              install Squid3?

              thanks for your replies

              Localhost should work - I'm setup that way.

              I did not explicitly install squid2. It installs as part of Dansguardian. So… you can simply install Dans and then install Squid 3.

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                ccarreraalza
                last edited by

                I have the same error (Dansguardian Error connecting to proxy) but I have many problems when surfing the internet.

                What would be the solution? …. Install squid3? (I have installed the squid2)

                I have problems Webupload also banned: (

                thanks

                My dansguardian 2.12.0.3 version is v0.1.8 and my squid is 2.7.9 pkg v.4.3.3

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                  asterix
                  last edited by

                  Run this to get rid of the Webupload issue. You need to do this every time you re-install Dansguardian.

                  amd64
                  fetch -o /usr/local/sbin/dansguardian "http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/amd64/dansguardian"

                  i386
                  fetch -o /usr/local/sbin/dansguardian "http://e-sac.siteseguro.ws/pfsense/8/dansguardian"

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                    ccarreraalza
                    last edited by

                    webupload problem solved, thanks asterisk.
                    But I still have the problem of "Dansguardian [nnnn]: Error connecting to proxy".
                    Someone who had this problem and I solve it?
                    Parameters are configured in dansguardian? in the squid?

                    : (

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                      Fredb
                      last edited by

                      @ccarreraalza:

                      webupload problem solved, thanks asterisk.
                      But I still have the problem of "Dansguardian [nnnn]: Error connecting to proxy".
                      Someone who had this problem and I solve it?
                      Parameters are configured in dansguardian? in the squid?

                      : (

                      Nothing in squid cache.log ?
                      Can you post the result of - when the problem occurs -

                      netstat -n | grep WAIT | wc -l

                      There latest version of DG fixes "Error connecting to proxy" but often this can hide a real problem, usually a bad tuning about system, for example with sysctl and the number of socket max, or perphaps local port range (squid + dg can eat more of them), I don't know about pfsense but I think you should see something in log, but not in DG's log.

                      What about load average with top command ?

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                        ccarreraalza
                        last edited by

                        I have nothing in the cache.log

                        "netstat-n | grep WAIT | wc-l"
                        fluctuates between 60 and 180 approximately

                        Average load TOP
                        last pid: 58754, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 5 +17:03:26 12:56:42
                        180 Processes: 1 running, 179 sleeping
                        CPU: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.2% interrupt, 99.6% idle
                        Mem: 365M Active, Inactive 651M, 152M Wired, 112M Buf, 823M Free
                        Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

                        some parameters of my kernel

                        kern.ipc.maxsockets: 25600
                        kern.ipc.numopensockets: 591

                        My network is 30 pcs and internet navigation sometimes is somewhat slow. I'm using WPAD correctly and smoothly

                        dansguardian parameters

                        Min / Max Children 8/120

                        Min / Max Spare Children 8/64

                        Children Prefork 10

                        Max Age Children 500

                        Max Ips 0


                        It takes some values ​​more? .. or that issue should investigate?

                        Thanks :)

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                          Fredb
                          last edited by

                          And the bandwitch, full ? You can reduce squid timeout or increase dansguardian timeout beyond squid
                          If you can, try a more recent release with more timeout parameters, I think you can find a package in marcelloc's posts

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                            ccarreraalza
                            last edited by

                            hello again, my problem persists, I have installed squid3 but does not solve the problem, I have the dansguardian 2.12.0.3 v0.18. How do I update dansguardian without losing data configuration and webconfig?

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                              rjcrowder
                              last edited by

                              @ccarreraalza:

                              hello again, my problem persists, I have installed squid3 but does not solve the problem, I have the dansguardian 2.12.0.3 v0.18. How do I update dansguardian without losing data configuration and webconfig?

                              You can simply pull the DG executable out of the package you download from Marcelo's site.

                              That said, I see no reason why a newer version would solve your problem. 2.12.0.3 DG should be able to connect to Squid and I highly suspect that something else is wrong with your configuration. Can you forget about DG for the moment, make sure squid is running stable and that you can stay connected to it? So… setup squid on the lan interface and manually connect to it as a proxy? Just trying to eliminate variables...

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