Re: [squid-users] Will Outlook 2003 work through squid

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Jakob Curdes <jc_at_info-systems.de> wrote:
> Avinash Rao wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>> Could you elaborate on Firewall/NAT configurations.. is this something
>> to do IPTABLES.. routing it directly to the Internet Modem?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Avinash
>>
>
> If you are using linux, then the answer is yes to both questions.
> You need to setup rules in your firewall to allow this type of traffic, then
> you need DNS resolution for the clients using either internal or external
> DNS servers and you need to source NAT the internal addresses like
> 192.168.x.x. to your external IP address. But this is way off-topic for the
> squid mailing lsit and there are a lot of instructions out there how to do
> that.
> You should probably disallow direct port 80 connections through your
> firewall or the beenfit of your proxy will be very low as people will start
> going direct ....
>
> JC
>

Yes, squid runs on Ubuntu 8.04 Server.

Thanks for the information.

Avinash
Received on Wed Nov 11 2009 - 15:39:27 MST