> -----Original Message----- > From: Reyk Floeter [mailto:reyk.floe...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Reyk Floeter > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 10:41 AM > To: Steven M. Caesare > Cc: OpenBSD general usage list > Subject: Re: relayd filter rewrite? > > Hi! > > On 10.01.2014, at 21:58, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote: > > > I've just rebuilt my FW as a 5.4 box, and was investigating using > > relayd (rather than squid) to transparently proxy for a couple of web > > host servers. > > > > > > > > It appears that this would be made possible by the filter rewrite > > mentioned at asiabsdcon 2013: > > > > > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/relayd-slides-asiabsdcon2013.pdf > > > > > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/papers/relayd-asiabsdcon2013.pdf > > > > > > > > > > > > It looks like this was targeted for v5.4. However, I don't see the new > > filter syntax referenced in the 5.4 man pages, nor in current. Did the > > filter rewrite happen yet? And relayd chokes if I try using that syntax. > > > > Sorry, the filter rewrite hasn't been finished yet. > > I simply didn't have enough time to finish it yet. At AsiaBSDCon in March 2013, I didn't know about another project that > took some of my "spare" time in 2013, but our second kid was successfully released in December 2013. Now I'm slowly > having more time to work on the relayd filter rewrite again. >
Excellent, congratulations! The biological products can indeed be time consuming. > > > > > > If not, am I overlooking a method to proxy (or redirect) based on > > incoming http host header request to multiple back end web servers, or > > would I likely be better off sticking to squid for the time being? > > > > Unfortunately, the filter rewrite is the way to go, the current code is not capable of doing this. > > Reyk > Thanks for the response, and the excellent work on relayd... much appreciated. -sc
