[squid-users] Not seeing desired results

This is all new to me , as per subject , I must be missing a basic step?

have loaded two version of Squid , on 3 platforms

a native windows NT version based on Squid 2.5 STABLE 4
a cygwin versions running on a NT box with Squid 2.5 STABLE 10.
and Squid 2.5 STABLE 10. on Solaris 8
all seem to install and Squid seems loadup fine .

but i never see the expected cache effect that is desired

installed a sniffer to trace traffic between squid server and web
server , with browsers on different terminals configured to point
to the proxy , the browers do direct all FTP and HTTP
traffic/requests to the Squid server , but
I always see the same amount of traffic from the squid servers to
the web servers ( located at a different location across the WAN on
our network )

have used various browsers on various terminals , but never see the
expected cache ing of the traffic at the Squid server ,

all enteries in store.log indicate RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF
all enteris in access.log show TCP_MISS

have included cache.log and squid.conf below from the sol 8
install (NOTE IP's have been changed, but there are no connection
issues )

any suggestions would be appriciated ?

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cache.log
005/08/12 14:35:11| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE10 for
i386-pc-solaris2.8...
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Process ID 27631
2005/08/12 14:35:11| With 1024 file descriptors available
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Performing DNS Tests...
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Successful DNS name lookup tests...
2005/08/12 14:35:11| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32973, FD 5
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Adding nameserver 153.346.123.12 from squid.conf
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 7876 objects
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Target number of buckets: 393
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Using 8192 Store buckets
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Max Mem size: 8192 KB
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Max Swap size: 102400 KB
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Rebuilding storage in /usr/local/squid/var/cache
(CLEAN)
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Using Least Load store dir selection
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Set Current Directory to /usr/local/squid/var/cache
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Loaded Icons.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Accepting HTTP connections at 153.346.122..59, port
3128, FD 12.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 13.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Accepting SNMP messages on port 3401, FD 14.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| WCCP Disabled.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Ready to serve requests.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Done reading /usr/local/squid/var/cache swaplog (5
entries)
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Finished rebuilding storage from disk.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| 5 Entries scanned
2005/08/12 14:35:11| 0 Invalid entries.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| 0 With invalid flags.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| 5 Objects loaded.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| 0 Objects expired.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| 0 Objects cancelled.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| 0 Duplicate URLs purged.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| 0 Swapfile clashes avoided.
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Took 0.3 seconds ( 16.7 objects/sec).
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Beginning Validation Procedure
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Completed Validation Procedure
2005/08/12 14:35:11| Validated 5 Entries
2005/08/12 14:35:11| store_swap_size = 26k
2005/08/12 14:35:12| storeLateRelease: released 0 objects
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squid.config

http_port 153.346.122..59:3128
hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ?
acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \?
no_cache deny QUERY
cache_dir ufs /usr/local/squid/var/cache 100 16 256
dns_nameservers 153.346.123.12
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours
auth_param basic casesensitive off
refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080
refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440
refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320

acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl our_networks src 153.346.122..0/255.255.255.192
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
acl SSL_ports port 443 563
acl Safe_ports port 80 # http
acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews
acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http
acl CONNECT method CONNECT
http_access allow manager localhost
http_access allow our_networks
http_access deny manager
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access deny all

acl snmppublic snmp_community gtyy
snmp_access allow snmppublic all
snmp_access deny all
snmp_port 3401

http_reply_access allow all
icp_access allow all
cache_effective_user Guest
cache_effective_group guests

visible_hostname plac-s036.h.
dns_testnames plac-h01.h

coredump_dir /usr/local/squid/var/cache
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....thks ........ab
Received on Sat Aug 13 2005 - 11:16:17 MDT