Re: [squid-users] Logging clients IP in cache.log

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:54:47 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

> > Then extending the information with the client IP is most likely also not
> > going to be 100% useful for you.. the client IP here is the IP address of
> > the peer who sent us the request, and this you SHOULD be able to derive
> > from the Via header or you have a very strange and unreliable peering
> > setup..
>
> The Via header contains a hostname, which is not very reliable in this
> case...

It is as reliable as your peering setup..

If you have peers (parents/siblings) you don't trust then your peering
configuration is unreliable and your proxy can not be trusted.

Each Squid in a parent/sibling relation MUST have a unique
unique_hostname, if not the forwarding loop detection will not work
properly.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 09:54:50 MST

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