Re: Squid ACL

raewyn@elwing.otago.ac.nz writes:

>Defining Access Control List in the squid.conf file.
>
>I am looking at installing squid-1.1.alpha7 on an alpha Unix machine. But, I
can't find any detailed documentation than the comments in the squid.conf file
about defining the access control list inregard to controlling our ipaddresses
accessing other web sites.
>Can any-one answer the following two access control list questions?
>1. How many ip-addresses can the squid.conf access control list handle?

there is no limit.

> As I currently use the CERN 1.5v server which restricts our University
> ip-addresses to browse New Zealand(NZ) web sites only. I allow outside
> NZ browsing access to authorised sub-net addresses by groups that are
> defined in a separate file.(approx 1200 ip-addresses) I feel
> that the squid conf file would not be able to handle all these
> addresses. (Due to high international traffic costs we restrict
> international access to staff and some students.)
>2. Can you define an access control list of client ip address ranges, instead
> of specifing separate subnet addresses.
> 139.80.64.1-100 (includes 1-100 subnet ipaddresses in client acl)
>instead of 139.80.64.1, 139.80.64.2, 139.80.64.3 etc...

Yes, like this:

    139.80.64.1-139.80.64.100

Duane W.
Received on Fri Aug 09 1996 - 16:20:25 MDT