Some countries or ISP have their access rules for their people to access the internet. Like China's government that block Facebook in their country for any reasons. Then some website only accessible from some country, but mostly allowed US. But you need the information from that website, so to bypass all that filters or access rules, you can use web proxy.What is web proxy? Web proxy (proxy server that focus on WWW request only), is a server (a computer system or an application program) that … Read more...
[HowTo] Install DHCP Server On Ubuntu
October 1, 2009 • 20 Comments
To complete my guide "How To Install And Configure Squid as Transparent Proxy", you will need a DHCP server installed on the server as well. So all of your client will have the same gateway point to Squid Server. In my case i installed Proxy server (Squid) and DHCP server is on the same machine. But if you want to install in separate machine, you still can use this tutorial. The use of DHCP here is to point all of your client gateway to proxy server so the squid can work properly.I have a … Read more...
[HowTo]Filter Some Website During Work Hour With Squid
September 5, 2009 • 23 Comments
In most of case, a company want to efficient and maximize their bandwidth use. In which you know you can speed up your loading time when browsing by using squid as a web cache. I'm not gonna tell you how squid do it or how to install it. For more details about squid you can refer to my old post about how to install squid and monitor it. Now the next case is you feel your internet connection is slow, even you using squid as web cache.After take sometimes to the squid log, you know that some … Read more...
[TIPS] Show Squid Log Continuously – Squid Web Proxy
July 13, 2009 • 1 Comment
From the last post i show how to install Squid Cache as intercept (transparent) proxy. So i expect your squid already running smoothly right now. Ok now i want to share how to see the squid log. Usually by default squid log is in /var/log/squid/access.log, and you can see the log by open the file.But the next question is, how to see your squid log continuosly, if you want to monitor your squid? I believe there are tons of program to this, but i prefer see it on shell because it really simple … Read more...
[HowTo] Install and Configure Squid as Transparent Proxy
July 12, 2009 • 200 Comments
Squid Cache is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.[quote]An intercepting proxy (also known as a "transparent proxy") combines a proxy server with a gateway. Connections made by client browsers through the gateway are redirected through the proxy without client-side configuration (or … Read more...
