[squid-users] Re: using blacklist file (was: hardware requirements)

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Flavio Borup wrote:

> I have a .TXT file with aprox =~ 1.7 MB of denied URLs
> The denied URLs .TXT were imported from MS ISA Server Web-Cache-Firewall
> solution The .TXT have one URL per line, sometimes in the format:
> domain.tld, but sometimes in the format *.domain.tld

> Question 1) Can i use the .TXT as BlackList in Squid ?

Yes. Use the dstdomain acl type and enclose the full path to the file in
quotes. I believe this is described in the default squid.conf.

> Question 2) A huge file like that can impose severe restrictions in
> performance? (Pentium III, 128 RAM, IDE 5.200 RPM disk)

Large numbers of regex-style acls can hamper Squid's performance. I do not
believe that dstdomain acls have the same effect.

With your hardware, your proxy will bottleneck on disk I/O before it
bottlenecks on a large number of dstdomain acls.

Adam
Received on Wed May 26 2004 - 09:47:14 MDT