AW: [squid-users] banner ads (again?)

Maybe the "hosts solution" will work. but only with Squid 2.5 because in
earlier versions Squid does not know the hosts file.
Nevertheless I guess such a big hosts file will slow down the machine.

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> Von: Mike Hoskins [mailto:mike@adept.org]
> Gesendet am: Dienstag, 13. August 2002 23:52
> An: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Betreff: Re: [squid-users] banner ads (again?)
>
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Mike Hoskins wrote:
>
> > But I'm wondering if I can simply maintain a local hosts
> table like the
> > one maintained/posted here:
> > http://ssmedia.com/Utilities/hosts/
> > And have Squid essentially 'strip' banner ads from office
> LAN surfers'
> > browsing. Do I need to do anything to Squid, or will this
> work by simply
> > keeping /etc/hosts up to date on my cache server?
>
> OK, so apparently something does need to be done to Squid..
>
> Searching the Squid archives doesn't turn up any examples of what I'm
> trying to do, surprisingly. Using the squid-cache.org
> mailing list search
> page, I only find these relevant hits containing useful information:
>
> JunkBuster reference, not what I want (more overhead):
> http://list.cineca.it/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0108&L=squid&P=R5653
>
> Seems most relevant ('redirector_access?'):
> http://list.cineca.it/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0005&L=squid&P=R28482
>
> With the host list from ssmedia in /etc/hosts on my Squid server, and
> Squid restarted, banner ads are still served to clients.
>
> A specific example: Going to www.freshmeat.net serves the banner from
> fmads.osdn.com, although it is pointing to 127.0.0.1 in
> /etc/hosts on the
> caching server. Browser cache has been cleared.
>
> What do I need to add to my squid configuration? I do not understand
> 'redirector_access' if that is the key, and searching
> squid-cache.org for
> that term returns 0 results.
>
> My clients are configured via proxy.pac. My proxy.pac defines
> 127.0.0.0/24 as a local network. Since it is local, it
> should be served
> via direct connect. Caching server should do hosts table
> lookup, and find
> that foo.ads.com is mapped to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, and
> return nothing
> for the ad graphic... Or so I thought. Does anyone do this, or can
> anyone offer config snippet/manual reference for doing
> something similar.
> (Either returning nothing for ads, or mapping ad URLs to a 'banner
> removed' type graphic, as referenced in mailing list archives... But
> again not exemplified.)
>
> Later,
> -Mike
>
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