On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Jim Nachlin wrote:
Thanks for your help. That is clear.
So the nameservers for webservername1.com (1.2.3.4) and webservername2.com (1.2.3.5) would point to the external interface of the machine that squid is on? These two webservers would then take local addresses like 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.5?
Any caveats with this system?
I would advice agains using redirectors unless you need to change the URL-path after the host name. Most accelerator setups works the best if Squid can forward the URL as-is to the backend web server, preserving the requested host name.
You can make Squid find the correct server by either
* Local host file * cache_peer directives * custom DNS server with other data than the public DNS records
There is also very noticeable performance bottlenecks of using redirectors, which alone may be a reason to stay away from them..
Regards Henrik
