nixCraft

Dear All
I m running Linux Proxy Server on RHEL-5 64bit for providing http access to users in my office, i m facing a problem while using msn messenger on LAN, we access msn messenger through above mentioned proxy server, whenever I sign in to msn messenger, it gets signed on but after a short while it gets signed out automatically and shows message "your connection with windows live messenger has been lost reconnecting" i have removed all the acls on squid which were blocking msn msgr even then i m unable to solve this problem, i have put some acls to access msn messenger but in vain, when i test proxy and ports on msn msgr it sticks on key ports and shows error, plz tell me which ports msn uses and what to do on proxy server end solve this problem which is a headache for me now

I ill really appreciate your cooperation

Thanks

Please check your iptables(on squid machine) weather your msn ports(ex:1863) are blocked..
And here is the link which will give you more info about msn
Network ports and URLs that are used by Windows Live Messenger

yes no msn port is blocked through iptables, i have opened the ports mentioned in the url u refered through iptables but still problem is there, plz plz plz assist me solve this porblem

thanks

dear all
please help me on the above issue

thanks

Got this code some where in net, not mine..

acl msnmime req_mime_type ^application/x-msn-messenger acl msngw url_regex -i gateway.dll http_access allow msnmime http_access allow msngw

Let me know if it works fine..

Check this one:

Linux: Setup a transparent proxy with Squid in three easy steps

I guess you forgot for iptables section