Re: [squid-users] Allow connections to individual IP addresses

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
John Davis <linux0642@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Our squid blocks access to everything but approved
> websites. Most of these sites have a domain, (ex:
> www.yahoo.com ) but some places insist on using IP
> addresses instead of domains for the URL, paticularly
> certain government sites. Every time we get a request
> for a new ip-addressed site to be added to the
> whietlist, I have to add a DNS entry to our DNS server
> for squid to allow connections. This gets really
> complicated.
>
> How can I add individual IP addresses to the
> whitelist like it was a domain? I have tried adding
> the IP, and the IP range, but neither seems to work.
> There must be some way, but I can't find it in the
> docs or FAQs. Could someone tell me what the trick is
> please?

(Using an aol ip as an example):

.64.12.187.24

works for me. I'm using url_regex to specify a file with one domain per
line like this:

acl unblockedsites url_regex -i "/etc/squid/unblock.txt"

HTH,
Jacob
Received on Thu Sep 30 2004 - 11:32:20 MDT