Re: Re Delay Pools and Destination Control Lists

On Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 08:19:40PM +0000, Bruce A. Smith wrote:
> Is it possible to use delay pools on a Squid proxy to limit traffic to
> certain sites to a segment of our bandwidth. The proxy is on the wrong
> side of a firewall and we want our users to have unrestricted access to
> all other sites.

Yes: this is something I'm currently investigating for our system. This is
handy as it means that usage of certain high-volume sites (generally those
used mainly to store mp3s and the like, but also some legitimate content,
such as idrive.com and juston.com) can be severely restricted without
getting accused of censorship and unfairness by cutting the sites
completely.

Additionally I'm seeing whether anything can be done about the absurd
amounts of bandwidth consumed by people using Hotmail rather than our
internal web-based email service.

> Also, if possible, does Squid match hostnames or only IP
> addresses for destinations? Now that's a question I can get shot for.

Either. Use for instance "dst 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0" or
"dstdomain .foo.com" in your acls as necessary.

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