Re: [squid-users] Bypassing squid proxy

I am not farmiliar with your environment but is there a potentail for a
lockdown browser configuration?

Thanks,
Preston

H M Rajeev wrote:
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> You mean to say restricting the bandwidth only for certain PCs? Tomorrow
> users may install proxy in different system and they may connect to that PC
> for accessing the net. How you will monitor whether the system is having
> proxy software or not? Unless there is a problem users will not allow MIS
> people check their system.
>
> regards
> rajeev
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Campbell" <sgcccdc@citec.qld.gov.au>
> To: "H M Rajeev" <hmrajeev@ybil.com>
> Cc: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:06 AM
> Subject: 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 Wed Mar 06 2002 - 11:24:59 MST