Squid help

[Si Jones]

>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to set up Squid on my computer, and it seems very difficult 
>to get working.  Here is my log file from when it started:
>
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE3 for 
>i386-redhat-linux-gnu...
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Process ID 9266
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| With 1024 file descriptors available
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Performing DNS Tests...
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32798, FD 4
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Adding nameserver 205.152.144.23
>from /etc/resolv.conf
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Adding nameserver 205.152.132.23
>from /etc/resolv.conf
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| User-Agent logging is disabled.
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Referer logging is disabled.
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 9
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Swap maxSize 131072 KB, estimated 10082 objects
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Target number of buckets: 504
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Using 8192 Store buckets
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Max Mem  size: 16384 KB
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Max Swap size: 131072 KB
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid (CLEAN)
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Using Least Load store dir selection
>>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Loaded Icons.
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 3128, 
>FD 10.
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD
>11.
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| WCCP Disabled.
>2004/06/01 00:33:40| Ready to serve requests.

>Are the 0.0.0.0's for the IP addresses normal operation?

>Thanks,
>William

Yes they are normal, it means ANY interface, so if you have eth0, lo,
eth1 then which ever interface receives a request on port 3128 it will
serve it.

If you have a external interface that you dont want it available to, go
in the squid.conf file and look for the interface to bound to, alter it
to be 

127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.0

192.168.1.0 being your whole internal IP range.

If you have a the firewall setup you will have to open port 3128 to
allow it to talk to the network EVEN if you are binding squid to all
interfaces (0.0.0.0).