Re: [squid-users] HowTo: Downtime Message

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 10, Arnold, Christian wrote:

> I had to create a new machine which hosts our squid proxy. This new
> machine is available under another IP than the last one. I sent out a
> newsletter to all the users that they have to change the proxy
> settings, but still some of them are using the old one. Now I would
> like to display a message with instruction on how to change the proxy
> and deny all internet usage over that proxy. How can I display some
> kind of downtime message via a squid proxy?

It is better to announce the new ip addresse via the old dns name, so
all users don't have to change their configuration.

You can define a custom deny_info page with html content.

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