Re: [squid-users] Siblings with redirectors

From: Henrik Nordstrom <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:34:19 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 chris@nadovich.com wrote:

> It seems that setting an IP address with http_port has different
> consequences than setting udp_incoming_address. When you set
> udp_incoming_address, by default udp_outgoing_address is set to
> match.

Indeed, and this is what the documetation says.

> But when setting http_port, tcp_outgoing_address is _not_ set
> to match.

Correct, and the documentation also does not mention any relation between
tcp_outgoing_address and http_port.

> This configuration asymmetry is an important point if you care about the
> apparent TCP address of a requesting peer, as you will when you are
> constructing an ACL to work with redirector_access.

What you need to list is the address(es) the peers use to talk to you.
This may be different from the http_port and quite often intentionally is
different in multihomed setups.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Oct 07 2004 - 14:34:21 MDT

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