RE: [squid-users] setting up a blacklist

From: Bill McCormick <wpmccormick@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:31:53 -0500

> A few problems here:
>
> 1) The first porn acl should be url_regex, not dstdom_regex
> (guessing from the
> file name) - dstdom_regex won't match anything after the hostname
> 2) The 3rd porn acl is missing the acl type (suggest url_regex or
> urlpath_regex)
> 3) Since you're referencing files, you might have to make those 3
> porn acls
> porn1, porn2, and porn3. (You definitely will if they're not the same acl
> type)

Ok ... I can see that.

> 4) The "http_access deny porn" is after you've already allowed your local
> network, so it won't have any effect
>

Oops :-)

> I don't see anything that would give the symptoms you report
> (excessive CPU
> utilization on startup and shutdown). Having too many patterns in

Check my top output ... it was memory bog not cpu.

> the files
> can cause high CPU utilization, but I would expect that to be fairly
> constant. Maybe someone else has more insight.
>

I'm now in the process of setting up squidGuard based on the suggestion
Gareth.

Thanks for your suggestions too.

Bill

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