[squid-users] Re: Stopping Torrent access in Squid

On 3/11/2012 1:50 PM, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote:
> Well you could begin by enabling squids built in blacklisting feature
> and then add all known torrent tracker domains to the blacklist, that
> would be a good start
>
>
> And then I think you can use another blacklisting method based on regex
> to block *torrent* from your network
> But others on here would be better equipped to explain regex, its a bit
> too leet for my current level
> of knowledge.

In addition you could block downloads of torrent files by name, although
you might need to get the ICAP content scanning server running to ensure
broader coverage (i.e. not by URL ending in *.torrent).

I use qlproxy with squid.
sich
Received on Sun Mar 11 2012 - 15:47:43 MDT