Re: Making squid answer both transparent and non-transparent?

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Amos Shapira wrote:

> Another option I was thinking about is to setup squid to listen on
> port 80 as the FAQ says and have some simple application on port 8080
> which will pass port 8080 to port 80. Would that work? Would it hurt
> performance significantly?

normal practice would be to leave squid listening to 8080 (or 3128) and
redirect 80 -> 8080. this way, if squid dies (or you need to shut it down
for some reason) your clients who aren't pointing directly at it can still
get their web pages.

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