Re: [squid-users] ident packages and the "Unknown" user

IIRC squid's use of ident has a timeout period on it (so machines not
running identd can still go through) - you might want to disable ident
timeouts in squid.conf.

Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Adam" <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:24 PM
Subject: [squid-users] ident packages and the "Unknown" user

> Hi List,
>
> To cut a long story short, our squid proxy server
> works beautifully. We have an ident package running on
> our PDC server, but for some reason, squid logs quite
> a few entries in access.log with a user called
> "Unknown". I suspect what causes this is that if there
> are a huge number of requests to a particular site,
> then this might overload the ident package.
>
> So, my question is, how do I cure getting rid of, or
> reducing the number of "Unknown" users.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Adam
>
>
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>
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Received on Wed Mar 21 2001 - 03:44:48 MST