[ale] Help with squid- I think

[Mark Wright]

Hi all,

I have installed Dansguardian on a pc.  I stuck it on my network and  
have blocked all the DNS able IP addresses at my DSL router.  All the  
"normal" PCs in my house have to proxy to the DG box to get any http  
action.

Things were fine for a month, or so I thought, I am getting errors  
that I think are coming from squid.  (Squid catches the 8080 port and  
gives it to Dansguardian to filter)  the message I am getting is;

  "connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx failed,  (111) connection refused,  
The remote host or network may be down. Please try your request again."

The problem is rather random.  when I first encountered it I thought  
Dans was screwing up and I did a restart.  The browser worked so I  
thought that fixed it.  I made a mental note to look at the DG conf  
file.  As time went on I discovered I wasn't fixing anything.  The  
problem was just intermittent.  Sometimes it would go away sometimes  
not.  Then I thought maybe it was Squid.  Same situation.

When I searched on this error I found tips on fixing the Squid conf.   
But there is literally nothing configed on in my squid.conf.  There  
is one line for the communication port to Dans and one line for  
allowing any PC to connect and that is it.  One huge file full of #'s.

All the hits I got searching on "(111) connection refused  
dansguardian"  pointed to squid configuration problems.  So I read  
the unbelievable amount of text in the squid.conf file. (lots of  
comments is a good thing) but the information is too cryptic for me.

Any of you router security gurus understand Squid enough to give me a  
clue?

Thanks

Mark