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    Squid, SquidGuard, Lightsquid status on 2.3

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.3-RC Snapshot Feedback and Issues - ARCHIVED
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      UltramaticOrange
      last edited by

      Reading threads from older versions of pfSense, it sounds like this is a known issue, but I wanted to report that I am also having issues with the transparent proxy and getting "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE" on Chrome. However, my observation has been that everything works fine when the DNS response is still hanging around from the last time I visited the page (read: squid was off). To me, this might suggest that Squid is either having a hard time talking to the dns server (isn't pointed a the local machine/general DNS settings), squid isn't giving dns enough time to respond (timeout setting too short), or there's some conflicting setting between squid and dns.

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        cmb
        last edited by

        There's a workaround for the transparent proxy issue in https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/5869

        chgrp squid /dev/pf
        

        Proper fix to come.

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          brianc69
          last edited by

          Work around confirmed working on my end! Squidguard also functioning now that squid is responding. Thank you!!!

          Now I await the return of Lightsquid for reporting but for now the important part of content filtering has returned!

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            brianc69
            last edited by

            Also pleased to report that enabling antivirus is working too! I attempted to download the eicar.txt file and it was blocked with a virus warning as it should be!

            Only thing left I notice is on the realtime log page.

            Message
            WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock: No such file or directory
            Database updated (6435493 signatures) from db.us.clamav.net (IP: 194.8.197.22)
            

            Everything else looks good to my knowledge.

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              brianc69
              last edited by

              Work around did not survive a reboot. Reapplied and things work again. Just an FYI.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                That's expected, it's just a temp workaround.

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  New revision of the squid package is up now for testing. If you did the chgrp work around you need to change it back to 'proxy' or reboot before upgrading the package.

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                    brianc69
                    last edited by

                    Rebooted, updated squid package. Seems to be ok. Content filtering and virus scanning are working.

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                      rubinho
                      last edited by

                      Thx for fixing this issue

                      Transparentproxy works fine now.

                      [Pfsense 2.4] Supermicro A1SRI-2558F@Atom C2558 4Gb RAM
                      [Pfsense 2.4] Jetway NF9D@Atom D2550 + AD3INLAN-G Expansioncard  (3x Intel 82541PI Gigabit Controller)

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                        UltramaticOrange
                        last edited by

                        I'm noticing that between the 12-24hr mark, DNS issues return. Timing has seemed relatively inconsistent and I haven't really narrowed down any possible causes just yet.

                        Here's what I've observed so far:
                        I restarted unbound, and the issue persisted.
                        I disabled squid and the issue went away.
                        I re-enabled squid and everything stayed good.

                        Next time, I'll check the squid logs and restart the service and report back.

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                        • jimpJ
                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                          last edited by

                          Update on Lightsquid: The package now runs in its own web server instance using lighttpd, on its own port and with password protection. It was the smoothest way to get perl cgi support without dragging extra dependencies into base.

                          Note there are some subtle changes to navigation in the package.

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                            brianc69
                            last edited by

                            There is a port issue when you click Lightsquid. I see myip:9000:7445

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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                              last edited by

                              @brianc69:

                              There is a port issue when you click Lightsquid. I see myip:9000:7445

                              I'll look into that.

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                                maverick_slo
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                                Also nothing happens if I hit refresh buttons.
                                It seems like it is working but I have no data in the logs.

                                When I: /usr/local/www/lightsquid/lightparser.pl from console, data appears.
                                In logs I have: /pkg_edit.php: [lightsquid] Parsing today's entries in access.log using '/usr/bin/perl /usr/local/www/lightsquid/lightparser.pl today'

                                There has to be something wrong here…

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                                  maverick_slo
                                  last edited by

                                  Oh and one more thing..

                                  If I manually do: /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/www/lightsquid/lightparser.pl today
                                  This is in the crontab.

                                  Output is /usr/bin/perl: Command not found.

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                                  • jimpJ
                                    jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                    last edited by

                                    I fixed the perl path (should be /usr/local/bin/perl) and fixed the parsing of the link with the port.

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                                    • jimpJ
                                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                      last edited by

                                      I split the unrelated hit % posts off into their own thread and cleaned up the references here.

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                                        maverick_slo
                                        last edited by

                                        One more thing:

                                        a) After reboot Lightsquid Web Server wont come up b) Starting it from status_services.php wont start it
                                        c) Saving settings in pkg_edit.php?xml=lightsquid.xml will start it.

                                        :)

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                                        • jimpJ
                                          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                          last edited by

                                          @maverick_slo:

                                          a) After reboot Lightsquid Web Server wont come up b) Starting it from status_services.php wont start it
                                          c) Saving settings in pkg_edit.php?xml=lightsquid.xml will start it.

                                          I can't reproduce this, it starts every time for me. Any errors in the system log, or in /var/log/lighttpd_lightsquid.log ?

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                                            whitexp
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                                            lightsquid :

                                            disable ssl , now click "open lightsquid" .. url go to "https" ….

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