From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 17:17:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA03862 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 17:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.aros.net (root@shell.aros.net [205.164.111.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA03857 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 17:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by shell.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) id SAA01988; Fri, 17 May 1996 18:17:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199605180017.SAA01988@shell.aros.net> Subject: Re: What proxy server? To: jonas@mcs.com (Lars Jonas Olsson) Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 18:17:20 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jonas@mcs.net In-Reply-To: from Lars Jonas Olsson at "May 17, 96 09:30:38 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk SquidCache. It's an excellent proxy server. I'm running it in beta right now with about 40 dialin users helping me test it out, and all of our in-office machines using it. It's currently a beta release (it's basically the next generation of HarvestCache), but I haven't had a problem with it yet. We'll be moving it in to full production within a month if it keeps performing as well as it is. It does take a fair amount of RAM, but that's the price you pay for one *fast* cache. It also compiles out of the box. >From the readme: This is the Squid Internet Object Cache developed by the National Laboratory for Applied Networking Research (NLANR) and Internet volunteers. This software is freely available for anyone to use. The Squid home page is http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/. -Dave Andersen Lo and behold, Lars Jonas Olsson once said: > I need a proxy server so that I can use netscape on Windows for WG > machines on a private network (10.0.0.*). This would run on the > internet server (FreeBSD 2.1R) that is connected via SLIP to internet. > > What is easy to install, safe, and reliable? > > I'm looking for proxy server as that seems safer than having firewall > and direct internet access from the win machines. I doubt the win > machine net can be kept safe (passwords, shares, etc). > > Jonas > -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."