Re: identd_lookup in config.sys

Thanks to Henrik as well. I believe I will now turn it off. Cheers

Date sent: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:37:49 +1000
From: Dancer <dancer@zeor.simegen.com>
To: sbryan@olmc.nsw.edu.au
Copies to: squid-users@ircache.net
Subject: Re: identd_lookup in config.sys

> Simon Bryan wrote:
> >
> > I notice that in my config.sys file for Squid that identd_lookup is turned on,
> > the comments say that it is normally off. Under what conditions should I turn
> > this on or off?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Simon Bryan sbryan@olmc.nsw.edu.au
> > Information Technology Manager sbryan@mpx.com.au
> > OLMC Parramatta
>
> When all your users are running on unix boxes that have running ident
> daemons (or running on some either kind of system that has ident
> services installed) AND you want the user-name of the user logged AND
> there isn't any firewalling, masquerading or proxying between your proxy
> and the users, AND you are willing to accept the minor performance hit
> that the ident queries will cause, THEN you should have it on.
>
> Semi-Technical description: A server recieving a TCP connection from
> another host may query the ident daemon on that host in order to query
> the username (on that host) that currently 'owns' the connection. In the
> case of an intermediate proxy between you and the customer, this would
> be the name of the uid that the proxy itself is running under.
>
> D
>

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Simon Bryan                    sbryan@olmc.nsw.edu.au
Information Technology Manager sbryan@mpx.com.au
OLMC Parramatta