[squid-users] eicar website not reachable

[Amos Jeffries]

On 12/01/2023 9:10 am, robert k Wild wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i have made a whitelist to go to some website, atm i have temp 
> commented out #http_access deny to go to any website
>
> when i browse the web i can go on gmail,o365,hsbc,facebook etc
>
> but when i try to go to "eicar.org <http://eicar.org>" i get the 
> following error
>
> The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: 
> https://www.eicar.org/*
>
>     *Connection to 2a00:1828:1000:2497::2 failed.*
>
> The system returned: /(101) Network is unreachable/
>

So what I/we can tell from that is that the traffic is HTTPS, and the 
server IP address(es) (all of them) are not accessible to your proxy.
You will have to investigate the logs and traffic connectivity to see if 
you can find out why they are unreachable.

Amos