Hi friends,

I am new user for this site and also for linux, I have installed squid on RHEL-5, and created one file for site blocking, this site blocking applying for all users, now i wanted to give permission to particular IP ex: 172.16.4.50 (facebook access permission) how to do?

MY SQUID.CONF ACL RULES:

acl business_hours time S M T W H F A 00:01-23:59
acl blocksite url_regex -i "/etc/squid/blocksite.txt"
acl freetime time S M T W H F A 09:00-18:00
http_access deny blocksite freetime
http_access allow blocksite


I have tried below things,

acl special_client src 172.16.4.50
acl facebook dstdomain .facebook.com
acl orkut dstdomain .orkut.com
http_access allow facebook special_client
http_access deny facebook
http_access deny orkut
http_access allow all


This is not working....

Please help me on this,

Thanks and Regards,
Sandeep CC

Hi,

How is it not working? Is it denying access to 172.16.4.50 for facebook or it allows everyone?
Anyway make sure facebook is not included in the blocksite.txt file and use:
and remove "http_access deny facebook"

Regards

Thanks bathory,


your post got helpfull to me, But here one clarification, as you said i have did and it got worked out, my network is on DHCP so i cant give by IP, same thing i have tried with Host name by giving srcdomain <host_name> but its not working, If it is in dhcp then how to do same thing for host name?


Regards,
Sandeep CC

How is not working?
If the host in question is on the same switch as the squid server you can use an acl based on the mac address of the client. Note that squid must be compiled with mac filtering support, that is not usually the case, because mac filtering does not work across different switches.
Or you (or the dhcpd server admin) can assign a static IP to the specific host based on its mac address.

Regards

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