[squid-users] newbie question - URGENT

Hi,

I'm running squid-2.2stable5.

System is slackware linux 2.2.18, PIII/800, 512mb RAM, 40gig EIDE,
apache 1.3.6-SSL

I would like to make sure I understand something correctly (?).

I have a bunch of dialup customers and I host a couple of website. Don't
I only want local clients (those belonging to me class c network), being
able to retrieve pages, and the general public being able to retrieve
only pages from my site and sites I host - nothing else?

I'm asking because my traffic has gone crazy and it's costing me a large
fortune, and soaking up all my bandwidth so my local clients get poor
response time, as clients from around the world access sites that are
not local to me, and are sending and receiving gigs of data which I'm am
paying for...

Obviously I need a crash course in security and firewalling, but are
there any params I can put in squid to disallow all non-local (ie not in
my address range), and non-locally hosted pages?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Phillip
Received on Fri May 04 2001 - 18:10:02 MDT