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Squid Web Proxy Cache
Squid is...
- a full-featured Web proxy cache
- designed to run on Unix systems
- free, open-source software
- the result of many contributions by unpaid (and paid) volunteers
Squid supports...
- proxying and caching of HTTP, FTP, and other URL's
- proxying for SSL
- cache hierarchies
- ICP, HTCP, CARP, Cache Digests
- transparent caching
- WCCP (Squid v2.3 and above)
- extensive access controls
- HTTP server acceleration
- SNMP
- caching of DNS lookups
Configuring Squid for Melbourne Wireless
Relevant options:
cache_peer- Each cache should be listed as a sibling
- miss_access
- You might want to deny other nodes from fetching MISSes through your cache
Legal issues
- The configuration options suggested above may or may not be legal depending on the contract held between yourself and your Internet Service Provider. It is up to you to check to make sure you are legally able to do this before allowing cache access to anyone.
Version 1 (old) modified Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:49:29 +0000 by LapTop006
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