Re: [squid-users] Dynamic Settings

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 18.29, Derek Belrose wrote:

> Everything currently goes through our squid cache, the acls are
> configured to only allow the people in our network. From there, I
> want to be able to, based on a database value of 1/0, be able to
> basically set squid's proxy to a Dan's guardian server that we have
> running next to it. Is squid able to do this?

Yes. To what level depends on how you identify "people".

> I guess my question is, based on a value in either LDAP or MySQL,
> can squid proxy off of another server?

You can use external acls in the always/never_direct directives.

In cache_peer_access you can not, but you can use local acls defined
from files (but this requires a "squid -k reconfigure" each time
there is changes)

Regards
Henrik

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