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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Need an efficient HTTP proxy
From:       Bernd Eckenfels <lists () lina ! inka ! de>
Date:       1998-05-31 0:14:35
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On Fri, May 29, 1998 at 12:08:35PM -0500, Joe Gross wrote:
> IMO the one thing that apache still has over squid is the ability to bind
> to one or more specific interfaces. This is extremely useful if you have
> a host with several interfaces and only want to provide squid services
> to the internal interfaces. I know you can do ACLs but simply not having
> it listen on the external interface is much safer.

Define: 'much safer' cause this is OS and ip-address dependend: 

A lot of OSes allow to connect to the wrong IP on the other interface (if
this is a public one) if you dont filter those packets at the ip-filter
level. If you filter those packets by target-ip you can also filter by
target-port.

And of course it is no problem to tell squid to which interfaces it should
bind to :) (its a one-liner in the source, perhaps a config option already).

Greetings
Bernd
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