Re: [SQU] Re : Couple Of Questions

From: Gavin Cameron <gavin@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:04:02 +1000 (EST)

>
> Hi there. I need to block some web sites. I added the ff. to my squid.conf :
>
> acl site1 www.somedomain.com
> http_access deny site1

That's not the syntax for the acl command.

        acl aclname acltype string1 ...

So you want

        acl site1 dst www.somedomain.com
        http_access deny site1

>
> Still nothing happens. I can still access the blocked domain. Another
> question is how can an IRC client inside my network get out to the internet
> using squid and also some of the machines have the MSN Messenger Service
> which uses port 1080. MSN has two options for using proxy, one is SOCKS4 and
> the other one is SOCKS5 which asks for username and password. How can the
> clients using MSN get out to the internet? What is SOCKS4 and 5. Pls. Help
> me regarding this. Thanks.
>

Squid is a WWW (and FTP over http) proxy. I'll leave it to someone else to
explain SOCKS.

Gavin
Received on Sun Aug 13 2000 - 03:06:33 MDT

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