Re: speaking of squid ports...

[Kevin Cheek <kcheek@umich.edu>]

I believe that UDP port is for receiving DNS responses.

-Kevin

Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org> writes:

> does anyone know what squid's udp sockets are for, and how to close
> them? As far as I can tell, I don't need them, but I've been unable to
> find a combination of squid directives to make them all go away. The icp
> port can be closed using "icp_port 0", but the other one is dynamic and
> isn't referred to in the squid docs as far as I can tell:
> 
> [kahlua](0) # netstat -lp | grep squid
> tcp        0      0 *:3128                  *:*	LISTEN	673/(squid)
> udp        0      0 *:1414                  *:*		673/(squid)
> 
> the udp port isn't there immediately after starting squid, but it always
> shows up after a client uses the proxy. port 1414 isn't constant; it's
> different every time.
> 
> Jason