Squid3 Proxy Problems on Ubuntu Linux to Yahoo, Google, Facebook, YouTube and so on

I set up a Squid3 (Squid) proxy as part of my DansGuardian setup on Ubuntu to filter the kids’ web traffic.  Overall, the proxy worked fine … but I was getting strange connection failures to some of the largest web properties, such as Yahoo, Google, YouTube and Facebook, whereas all smaller properties worked just fine.

The general error I was receiving was “The system returned: (110) Connection timed out”.

It turned out the problem was that Squid was using IPv6 to access any site that returned a legitimate IPv6 address.  As my system wasn’t properly configured for IPv6, the request was failing.

The right answer, of course, is to get on board and configure properly for IPv6.  It’s the future, it’s faster, etc.

The short answer is to add to your squid.conf file:  dns_v4_first on

This will force Squid to check for a valid IPv4 DNS entry, and use that.  fixed a day-long problem for me like … snap!

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