On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Pablo Gietz wrote:
I have read many questions about how to block traffic of P2P programs like Kazaa, but i need to know wy this programs don't work in our proxy?
These programs are not HTTP clients surfing the web.
Squid is a HTTP proxy, not a firewall or router.
P2P programs need a public IP addresses to work best. See documentation of any P2P program.
Some server based P2P programs have (limited) support for tunneling outgoing requests over a HTTP proxy, but in the Squid community this is seen as servere abuse of the HTTP proxy.
Most if not all server based P2P programs have (limited) support for being used behind a NAT gateway/firewall, but not all functions will be available without a public IP address and most P2P networks give clients without a public IP address limited access due to the restrictions of not having a public IP address and the impact of this on the P2P network.
Regards Henrik
