Hi, Neither a squid user or a SuSE user ( just yet ), but this question intrigued me so I went for a quick surf....
I am a real Linux newbie so please be gentle with me. We have just installed SuSe Linux on a spare file server that we have. I am hoping to use it as a Proxy server. I have Squid running and it is working up to a point. We use RM IFL for our Internet access. I have a public IP address on the Linux server and it can get on the Internet without a problem. The problem is that we have to connect through a proxy server at RM (isdncache.rmplc.co.uk:8080). I can't figure out where this setting is in the Squid configuration file. What is happening at the moment is that I am getting pages that are hosted with RM and nobody else. So Squid is doing something it just can't get to the outside world.
This might help: "4.9 How do I configure Squid forward all requests to another proxy?", found at: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-4.html#ss4.9 AFAICT squid calls pointing one cache at another a "cache hierarchy", whereas from my experience of the Netscape Proxy Server this is known as "chaining". As a Linux user, learn to love http://www.linuxdoc.org, the Linux Documentation Project ( LDP ) is your friend. Took me about five minutes to find this answer through that site only having a vague notion of what I was searching for. NOTE - local mirrors of the LDP are listed at http://www.linuxdoc.org/mirrors.html#uk; I would hope the mirrors at mirror.ac.uk or rmplc.co.uk was well connected to those of you using RM connections. -- I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.