----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Harding" <derek@lagham.zetnet.co.uk> To: <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Sent: 26 May 2000 17:42 Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Named and Squid2
Hi,
In my last mailshot I left out my school eMail address; I've had to send from home because the school's ISP has been off line (again) all day.
I echo the comments about named and squid not running out of the box. named needs careful planning and for first-time users I would suggest starting with a handful of addresses on your 192.168 site and getting it all sorted before creating your full list!
squid2(.23) is very good once set up as a proxy/firewall/filter but some of the reporting tools are a little weak. It certainly benefits from being on a machine with a good quantity of RAM and good processing capacity, our system finds it a bit of a bottleneck (256k ISDN bandwidth in use all breaktimes and often during the lessons, too!). The same box is our internal webserver, mailbox, dhcp server, etc., etc., so it isn't too surprising that it slows down at times! It never crashes, either - unlike some systems I have to use.
It would be useful if squid could read some of its configuration from include files, then adding to the filters would be more straightforward.
I'm not sure if this is waht you mean, but, you can use a "" syntax in the acl definition to specify a file from which squid will read the required inputs. e.g. acl allowedip src "/etc/squid/allowedip" or acl deniedsites url_regex "/etx/squid/deniedregex" here the files are looked up for the required access control. maybe you already know, but just in case!
Perhaps it can and I haven't found out yet.
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