Re: [squid-users] Bypassing squid proxy

Hi,

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, H M Rajeev wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> we use squid as proxy server and all the users are connecting to squid
> for browsing. ACL is configured based on System IP address. But we
> have found that some users are installed free proxy software in their
> system(ACL is configured to allow these users) and allowing other
> users( who don't have access directly from squid) to browse the net,
> so,bypassing the squid, which is causing the havoc.
>
> Is there any solution for this?

There is little you can do. You can't autheticate because the bad people
will just give out the username and password. About the only thing you
can do is limit the number of concurrent copnnections. That'll slow them
down a bit. Maybe you can throttle their download speed.

Colin
Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 22:36:44 MST