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From: Jens Knoell <jens@surefoot.com>
Subject: Re: transparent proxy
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:58:05 -0700
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To: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
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Luca Ferrari wrote:

>Hi,
>I'm trying to use a machine as a transparent firewall/proxy, using iptables as 
>described in the transparent proxy mini howto:
>iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 
>8080
>
>where eth0 is my internal interface (eth1 is connected directly to the 
>router). Now, when I try to browse the web, i always get the squid error page 
>saying that the url "/" cannot be retrieved. For example, going to 
>www.google.com is translated as /.
>Any idea?
>
>Thanks,
>Luca
>  
>
That sounds like a faulty squid configuration. What does squids logfile say?

Jen