[squid-users] something better than using IP address?

Hi, all,

Recently, we used Squid redirectors to solve an application problem.
Our redirectors are checking incoming requests against a database
table to see if this IP has already accessed Squid--redirect only if
ip is not in database.

We now have the concern that it may cause problem when applying our
application to a NATed or PATed network. In those networks, private IP
addresses are not seen from the upper level router(on where our Squid
is sitting). Therefore, it seems to be not possible for us make our
redirectors work as expected.

In our application, we don't want to use any user name + password for
access authentication, our situation is that everyone is authorized.

In the Squid redirector input string, we can only get IP address(plus
FQDN at most, which doesn't help at all). Is there a way for Squid to
solve this problem?

Thanks,
Jian
Received on Fri Jul 11 2008 - 22:49:39 MDT