Re: [squid-users] Ad-zapping redirector causes IE to think it never completes loading a page

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 01:02, James Gray wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:32 pm, Angela Williams wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 08:10, Ken.Thomson@audit.nsw.gov.au wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I am running Squid 2.5STABLE5 and trying to block a few of the more
> > > prominent web advertisements that chew bandwidth.
> >
> > Andy Lyttle's bannerfilter take out all the pain of reinventing the
> > wheel! http://www.phroggy.com/bannerfilter/
> > We've run it on our squid boxes for over a year now with nary a problem.
> > I've also used it to redirect our intranet sites for the internal users
> > that insisted on using the external uri's - ok I will phix the dns real
> > soon!
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ang
>
> With the external/internal sites, we have a similar problem; same URL but
> different IP's. So, http://our.site.foo/ is 1.2.3.4 externally but
> 172.24.100.4 internally.
>
> I could've used Bind8/9 and set up "views" for that same zone, but alas
> manglement insists M$ (in)ActiveDirectory is a better option.

I moved the otherway. The ad crap lives in its own mickeysnot world as it
should and dns lives on linux servers. We had so many problems with the
mickeysnot dns that I took the bull by the horns and just moved all the dns
to linux bind8. I have since moved to bind9 and will do the views bit! Just
added complexity as we have multiple domains and sites and I want to do it
right first time! The internal ad stuff is just delegated to the mickeysnot
things and is no longer a problem. The bright sparks who setup the ad stuff
did not have a clue what they where doing just like many mcse's (mouse click
software exec's!)

> Grrrr. So
> instead I just put the internal IP in the proxy's /etc/hosts file, HUP'ed
> squid and voila! If an internal user accesses http://our.site.foo/ the
> proxy goes to the internal address. As external users don't use the
> internal proxy, the DNS only needs to resolve to the external address. All
> this works great as long as internal users use the proxy - which we have
> set using AD's group policy stuff.

We use the ad gp the same way. I'm not keen on hosts files as I have quite a
few squid boxes and 1 point of change is all I want!

> Not sure if this will help you but it's in the archives now in case anyone
> wants to know how to force squid to use a specific IP instead of what DNS
> resolves to.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James

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