Re: Access Controls

I managed to solve the problem. I was using 255.255.255.0 as my netmask,
when I changed it to 255.255.255.255 the access control started working.
Why should this be ?

Eric Headley

Trinidad & Tobago Electricity Commission
63 Frederick Street
Port of Spain
Trinidad W.I.

Telephone : (868)623-2611
Fax : (868)625-3759
e-mail : ttecisd@trinidad.net

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Tomasz Papszun wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 08:55:12AM -0400, ttecisd@trinidad.net wrote:
> > I am running Squid 1.1 on a Linux machine running Slackware 3.4 . I
> > want to allow access to certain machines. I set up a file with
> > IP/netmask pairs on each line. I then added a line in the squid.conf
> >
> > ' acl allowed_hosts src "/usr/local/squid/etc/allowed_hosts" '
> >
> > Eric Headley
>
> I'm not sure if one can "source" the file here, i.e. show the squid the
> name of the file instead of simply listing allowed addresses in place.
> But I may be wrong completely - haven't a squid.conf or docs handy.
>
> Have you seen that one is allowed to do it?
>
> It resembles the situation when I tried to "source" the error_msg from
> the external file and it didn't work at all. So I had to type all the
> HTML file in squid.conf (in one looong line, sheeeesh!...).
>
> Tomek
> -- Tomasz Papszun, Lodz, Poland tomek@lodz.tpsa.pl
>
Received on Thu May 28 1998 - 09:43:01 MDT