Re: [squid-users] getting dhcpd client-hostname (or other name) in

Yes, the external_acl_type appears to work nicely. I wrote a small C prog
that gets the client hostname & mac address using the dhcpctl api provided
with the isc dhcp server. I should have looked more closely at the
squid.conf before posting. Thanks!



> You can't query DHCP who an IP address belongs to using standard
> protocols, but real DHCP servers supports automatic DNS updates these
> days to keep DNS data in synch with DHCP updates..
>
> There is also the option (for Windows netowrks) to use Microsoft DNS
> with a WINS fallback which works to some level..
>
> However, if you find a way to query the user name (including looking
> direclty into the dhcpd database of IP addresses) or equivalent based
> on the source IP address then you can easily plug this into Squid via
> an external acl returning the information as user name (see
> external_acl_type).
>
> Regards
> Henrik
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