After Upgrade to 17.7.8 Proxy is not starting

[PotatoCarl]

Hi

I just updated from 17.7.7 to 17.7.8 and found that the Squid WebProxy is shown as "stopped". It will not start and I do not find any reason for that.

Strangely enough, some of the webpages still work, others don't.

I have configured the proxy as transparent proxy.

I only found one message that made sense to me:
kid1| FD 14, 127.0.0.1 [Stopped, reason:Listener socket closed job826385]: (53) Software caused connection abort

Any help how to get it going?

Thank you.

BR

[PotatoCarl]

Okay, found the problem. In the squid config a bungled hostname was found ("x.x.x..x"). No idea how it got there. Anyhow, I removed it from command line (where I could see this error message when trying to invoke "squid") and look there, it starts again.

[franco]

A manual hostname or from a remote list?


Cheers,
Franco

[PotatoCarl]

One hostname in the "Banned Host List".
My old Squid Conf did exclude the whole network, but whitlisted a few. This does not seem to work as I cannot enter in the GUI 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.255 for example. So instead I work with "banned" lists.
Actually I would love to have a better gui which makes use of more SQUID options, so that I can control the access to the outside world more fine granulated. E.g. I would like to have specific allow lists for some hosts, etc.

[franco]

Ok, you can open feature requests over at GitHub and people there will take up your suggestions based on need and time:

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues


Cheers,
Franco