Re: [squid-users] logging ident while avoiding an ident lookup for each request

Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a case where a squid provides caching services for a multi-user
> Unix system which has identd enabled. I'd like squid to log the ident
> value of a user with the access in the access log. I have already
> accomplished this (it's rather easy to do), but I am concerned about
> load issues this might impose on the multi-user system and on the
> network since the amount of TCP connections on the network is neatly
> doubled.
>
> Is it possible to have squid send some kind of identification to the
> browser so that an ident lookup is only necessary for the first http
> request in a session and the client can be identified by the bit sent
> back by the browser for the rest of the session?
>
> Or am I chasing a phantom here and the load imposed by the
> ident-lookups (which includes TCP session building and teardown) is
> negligible? Which other solutions are possible?
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>

Squid considers identd lookups to be an authentication type. Which gets
cached for a short period against the client IP to prevent such loading
of the network.

Amos

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