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  From: Alex Garner <alex@netcraft.com.au>
  To  : Richard Russell <richardrussell@internode.on.net>
  Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:12:31 +0930 (CST)

Re: simple squid setup

> On the box in question, I had ipchained it so that external IP addresses
> couldn't connect to squid at all. I could nmap it from a remote host, and
> would find that 8080 was closed. However, when my friend nmapped, he got
> 8080 open, and could seemingly get anywhere using that proxy...
> 
> We messed about with this for a while, and came to the conclusion that there
> must be a transparent proxy, capturing port 8080 for him, and he was
> actually interacting with that proxy, and not mine... To be honest, I'm not
> 100% sure that this is the case, but I have no better explanation...
> 
> Could anyone shed some more light on this, or perhaps confirm that this
> certainly could be happenning?

What did the logs say?

Cheers

Alex!


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