Re: squid configuration for small office

[rocky <rocky2winnie@gmail.com>]

On Jul 24, 1:10 am, David Brodbeck <bro...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2007, at 2:53 AM, rocky wrote:
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> Squid will probably help if you do a lot of web browsing on those PCs.
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> There's more you'll have to do in squid.conf to get everything  
> working.  You'll need to set up ACLs to allow your clients to connect  
> to the squid cache.  This is explained pretty well in the FAQ.
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> You'll also need to tell the web browsers on the PCs to use Squid as  
> an HTTP proxy.  Since you only have 15 of them it's probably easiest  
> to just configure them by hand; but if you decide to go with auto-
> configuration, I might be able to help since I was just setting this  
> up myself.
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> If you're running a local nameserver make sure you either point /etc/
> resolv.conf on the server to it, or tell Squid to use it by putting  
> something like "dns_nameservers 127.0.0.1" in the configuration  
> file.  This will improve speed, by adding a layer of DNS caching.  
> Besides,  strange things can happen if the cache and the clients  
> don't get the same results from DNS lookups.
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Hey David,

Thank you very much for your help! Could you give me some hint on how
to automatically set up the 15 PCs using squid as HTTP proxy server
please?

Thanks a lot in advance!
Blessings,
Rocky