Re: [squid-users] They know we are using squid? Had no idea...

* On 30/03/06 10:22 -0700, WebGal! wrote:
| Just saw something the other day that needs to be addressed.
|
| It appears, which we did not know, it can be determined if we are
| running squid when connecting to a server through our remote
| installation of squid. We would like to have this "feature" disabled,
| for obvious reasons. Would appreciate any thoughts about how to make
| our use of squid completely obscured.
|
| To see an example of what we are talking about visit the URL below
| through your squid proxy server, heck perhaps any proxy server...
|
| http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/aboutyou.ch
|
| generates...
|
| Proxy Server: 1.1 host.XXXXXXXX.XXX:8065 (squid/2.5.STABLE12)

Security by obscurity :-)
Just make sure your Squid setup is secure by following the
recommendations. Just hiding it does not make it secure as you don't
block any brute force attempts directed towards it.
A network scan will still get your squid on whatever port!

-Wash

http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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