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Why skype can not connect through squid proxy

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http://serverfault.com – No matter how hard i tried skype still can not connect to its server. Able to access other HTTPS servers like gmail,but skype is not working through proxy. squid proxy server eth0:192.168.2.22 with internet connection eth1:192.168.1.1 connected to LAN Squid running on port 3128 able to access HTTP and HTTPS websites but skype can not. specified Host and port in squids connection page,but still skype can not connect to proxy server. It is not even showing any skype activity in accesslog. (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 10/22/2012

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I have a squid proxy running on 192.168.1.2 on port 3000.

with Squid i am able to connect to internet and browse websites but skype is not connecting even after i specified proxy server in it.

In the skype configuration i mentioned it to use SOCKS5 through host 192.168.1.2 and port 3000.

But still its not working.Port 443 is open in squid configuration. https is working ok as i can access gmail

I recently purchased a VPS and am wanting to use it as a VPN server. However, it has bandwidth limitations. So, I figured since I already have a local Squid proxy caching things for me, I could have users connect to the proxy and the proxy connect to the VPN.

Hi,

i am using skype on samsung s3, when ever i connect to wifi network (wifi without proxy/nat router) skype works fine. but when i connect to wifi network and have to use proxy, skype connects but doesn't display contacts.

whereas Internet works fine on browser.

Any idea to solve this.

I have something weird here.

I have a Squid Proxy server (Debian) working perfectly with authentication:

auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/passwd

I'd like that also client that try to get web pages using the proxy as gateway (port 80) get redirected on port 3128.

I've tried iptables:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 3128

without luck because in tha

I have 2 servers running CentOS 6

I have a server A, that has 2 network cards. eth0 is a private test network. eth1 is the corporate network, where a proxy server must be used to access the internet. On this server I use

export http_proxy=http://proxyserver:3128/

and am able to access the internet.

I have a server B that has 1 network card.

I have something weird here.

Hi,

I am trying to set up a proxy server (squid). However, when I want to connect to a website using my proxy, I recieve the following response:

Code: he following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.google.com/

    Connection to 2607:f8b0:400c:c03::6a failed.

The system returned: (110) Connection timed out

The remote host or network may be down.

I am having a problem with squid proxy server and xchat as well as kvirc.