Re: [squid-users] blocking some IP to some sites

From: Daniel Navarro <danielnavarro001@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:32:08 -0600 (CST)

keep on

 --- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org> escribió:
> Please keep discussion on the mailinglist.
>
> Thanks
> Henrik
>
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Daniel Navarro wrote:
>
> > Got the idea, so, what do you recomend to avoid
> > internal user to visit pornos and dirty pages as
> > datemanager.com and kazaa.com?
> >
> > I try to optimize my squid con fedora core 3, I am
> > wondering what is a good cache_dir size. I see
> over 5
> > Gigas can take long to look for info.
> >
> > I have 20 internet clients plus 10 game clients in
> a
> > CiberCafe.
> >
> > Regards, Daniel Navarro
> >
> > --- Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache.org>
> escribió:
> >> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Daniel Navarro wrote:
> >>
> >>> is working, I just wonder how many lines can
> >> support
> >>> because the big file is not supported.
> >>
> >> How big acl lists are supported is very much
> >> dependent on the type of the
> >> acl, and how you specify the data.
> >>
> >> Common mistakes you should stay away from:
> >>
> >> 1. Very large regex based lists (url_regex,
> >> urlpath_regex etc). These
> >> are quite expensive, foremost in CPU usage which
> is
> >> linear to the
> >> number of entries in the list but also in memory
> >> usage which is rather
> >> high per entry. In addition regex patters are
> very
> >> hard to get correct in
> >> most real-life situations.
> >>
> >> 2. Specifying IP based ACLs by name (src,
> dst).
> >> If you specify IP
> >> addresses by name then Squid will need to make a
> DNS
> >> lookup on each name
> >> while parsing the configuration and this will
> take
> >> quite some time if the
> >> list is large, probably longer than anyone are
> >> willing to wait.
> >>
> >>
> >> The main acl types in Squid can support very many
> >> entries efficiently:
> >>
> >> src (client IP)
> >> dst (server IP)
> >> dstdomain (server hostname / domain)
> >> proxy_auth (username)
> >>
> >> For these the memory usage is approximately 4
> times
> >> the size of the list,
> >> and parsing speed on a P3 450 MHz is
> approximately
> >> 20K entries per second.
> >> Runtime lookup time is not very dependent on the
> >> size of the list.
> >>
> >> For the other ACL types the runtime lookup time
> is
> >> linear to the size of
> >> the list which makes them unsuitable to be used
> with
> >> very large lists. The
> >> memory usage and parsing speed is about the same
> as
> >> above, except for the
> >> regex based acls where both memory usage and
> parsing
> >> time is significantly
> >> higher.
> >>
> >>
> >> While talking about large acls it is also worth
> >> mentioning the external
> >> acl interface of Squid. This allows you to
> instruct
> >> Squid to automatically
> >> query a backend database of your choice to
> perform
> >> large scale acl lookups
> >> in an dynamic and reasonably efficient manner.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Henrik
> >>
> >
> >
>
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