Re: [squid-users] question about surrogate pooling/conf

From: John Allspaw <allspaw@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:21:31 -0800

thanks!

>
> But you should also set up proper access controls in http_access limiting
> to which destinations the proxy will allow requests. If not it can easily
> be abused to reach other sites..
>

right. I've been reading and testing for that.

> An alternative method is to tell Squid about each web server using
> cache_peer, control which requests gets sent where with cache_peer_access
> and force Squid to use the peers via never_direct. This gives you better
> control over how Squid distributes the load on the web servers, for
> example if you have multiple backend servers for the same content.

only thing about that is the backend origin servers all have unique
content. no images/html on one machine are on any other. would
that alternative method still work on that case ?
Received on Mon Jan 17 2005 - 07:21:32 MST

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