RE: [squid-users] Why squidguard or another redirektor???

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Fuller / Hotmail [mailto:fullerms@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2002 4:00 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Why squidguard or another redirektor???
> Importance: High
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I put the urls and ip addresses to be blocked in a text file
> (over 60k entries ) ; and configured an acl with
> dstdom_regex. Seems to be okay. Am I taking the right path ?
> Please advise.
>
As others have advised, avoid large numbers of regular expression
searches. They are slooowww.

If your sites are simple IP addresses use dst, if they are whole
websites (domains) use dstdomain. Only use regex acl's if you can't
avoid them. You can mix acls. In the last site I administered we had
five files to control destinations (one contained several hundred
individual allowed sites,) only one (small one) of which contained
regex's.

Remember the exhaustive (125 lines in 2.5S1) acl tag comments in
squid.conf are your friend here.

Michael Lightfoot
Unix Consultant
ISG Host Systems
Comcare
+61 2 62750680

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Received on Tue Nov 26 2002 - 22:46:05 MST