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I recently installed Squid on my desktop machine for testing purposes. I didn't edit the config whatsoever, and just pointed firefox at the proxy to see if it was working.

Pages take an insanely long time to load, and sometimes just load forever. I don't mean for example, 10 second page loads. I mean 10 MINUTE page loads, or more.

I have Googled around and added 2 lines to my config:

dns_nameservers 8.8.8.8
dns_v4_first on

and these have not helped whatsoever.

Is there any reason this could be happening?

For reference, my desktop machine is running Arch Linux on a quad core 3Ghz i5 and 16GB of RAM.

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I have solved this on my own after a bunch more research. I had a rewrite script set that I forgot I set, and said script was crashing on 90% of URLs. Fixing the script fixed this issue.

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I upgraded my OpenSUSE from Leap 15.2 to 15.3 and had squid being very slow afterwards. Found that it was an issue with NS resolution, as upgrade had replaced my /etc/resolv.conf with a link to an empty default file, so nameserver was not found.

Should check this if you encounter similar problems. (Could also be solved with dns_nameservers setting for squid, but bad resolv.conf will cause other problems as well ...)

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This still might be IPv6 : Squid will still perform both IPv6 and IPv4 DNS lookups before connecting.

Make sure there is no IPv6 line in /etc/hosts and is disabled on your host.

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If you add the following line to your config file, it will stop IPv6 which slowed down my squid connections. 

tcp_outgoing_address 0.0.0.0 all
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