Some of squid's default config params are not really satisfying. 



Usually, you want to change the size of the cache to say 20 Gig ... 

cache_dir ufs /var/spool/squid 20000 16 256 

... and allow your complete LAN to access your squid: 



# after acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 

acl lan 10.0.13.0/255.255.255.255 

# and after http_access allow localhost 

http_access allow lan 



or simply change ... 

http_access allow localhost 

... to ... 

http_access allow all 

... and leave the rest to iptables + /etc/hosts.deny + /etc/hosts.allow

From: IBCL BLog.
Originally posted: 2006-06-25