[squid-users] After enabling IPv6 squid no longer responds

[Alex Rousskov]

On 11/14/19 1:50 PM, James Moe wrote:
> On 13/11/2019 12.36 pm, James Moe wrote:
> 
>>   After adding v6 addresses to the server and hosts, and enabling an RA, squid
>> no longer delivers anything from its cache, or is exceedingly slow about it.

>   Here is a typical error message from squid:
> 
> The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL:
> http://dx.doi.org/
> Connection to 2606:4700:20::681a:9ed failed.
> The system returned: (110) Connection timed out

Can you connect to port 80 of that IPv6 address using telnet, wget, or
curl running on the Squid box?


>   There is nothing in the access.log; the request is utterly ignored.

FYI: "utterly ignored" seems to contradict "error message from squid"
above. If Squid v4 sent an error response to the browser but logged
nothing to access.log, then there is a Squid bug that you should report
to Bugzilla.

HTH,

Alex.