Re: [squid-users] Logging clients IP in cache.log

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:16:02 +0100

On 24.03 17:54, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
>
> > > Then extending the information with the client IP is most likely also not
> > > going to be 100% useful for you.. the client IP here is the IP address of
> > > the peer who sent us the request, and this you SHOULD be able to derive
> > > from the Via header or you have a very strange and unreliable peering
> > > setup..
> >
> > The Via header contains a hostname, which is not very reliable in this
> > case...
>
> It is as reliable as your peering setup..
>
> If you have peers (parents/siblings) you don't trust then your peering
> configuration is unreliable and your proxy can not be trusted.
>
> Each Squid in a parent/sibling relation MUST have a unique
> unique_hostname, if not the forwarding loop detection will not work
> properly.

I know, i exactly have problems with this and that is also why I want to
see real IP of hostname that is connecting to me...

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