Re: [squid-users] Multiple http servers behind a single squid

From: Tom Le <tomle@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:46:29 -0700

Henrik,

Let's say my internet domain name is testme.com, but my web server is
actually running behind a firewall with internal ip address such as
192.168.2.200.

How do I setup squid so that it would direct http call from tomle.com to
192.168.2.200? Using localhost file?

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Jim Nachlin wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your help. That is clear.
>>
>> So the nameservers for webservername1.com (1.2.3.4) and
>> webservername2.com (1.2.3.5) would point to the external interface of
>> the machine that squid is on? These two webservers would then take
>> local addresses like 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.5?
>>
>> Any caveats with this system?
>
>
> I would advice agains using redirectors unless you need to change the
> URL-path after the host name. Most accelerator setups works the best
> if Squid can forward the URL as-is to the backend web server,
> preserving the requested host name.
>
> You can make Squid find the correct server by either
>
> * Local host file
> * cache_peer directives
> * custom DNS server with other data than the public DNS records
>
> There is also very noticeable performance bottlenecks of using
> redirectors, which alone may be a reason to stay away from them..
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>

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