Re: [squid-users] Multiple Parent Proxies

From: Chris Robertson <crobertson_at_gci.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:40:36 -0800

Raspino,Brian M. wrote:
> Hello all,
> My name is Brian, I have a problem that I hope to configure squid to
> solve, but I'm not really sure where to begin if its even possible.
> This is the scenario I have, around the world I have many proxy servers,
> each serving one subnet and one subnet only. Now to access the
> computers in these subnets you must go through the proxy associated with
> them. Due to restrictive software on the client end that I cant change,
> I need one permanent proxy server hardcoded into the client machine, but
> I would like the ability to access any one of these subnets, and
> possibly more than one at once. What I was hoping to achieve, was to
> put another proxy running squid between the client and the WAN that
> would act as the permanent proxy that the client computer is pointing
> to, but would redirect traffic to another proxy server based on subnet,
> so that proxy could do its job. I thought I saw something that looked
> promising here:
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/Reverse/MultipleWebservers ,
> but I'm not sure if there is a way to switch from domain to subnet,

Use a dst ACL instead of dstdomain (with a cache_peer_access).

> and
> if the servers it redirects to is another proxy or the actual final
> destination.
>

Either will work.

> Thank you for your time and help,
> Brian
>

Chris
Received on Fri Jun 19 2009 - 22:40:58 MDT

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