[squid-users] Log proxy hostname along with HTTP access URI

[Brendan Kearney]

On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 15:04 +0100, Peter Oruba wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> 
> I’d like to distinguish multiple clients that are behind NAT from
> Squid’s perspective. Proxy authentication or sessions are not an
> option for different reasons and the idea that came up was to assign
> each client a unique hostname through which Squid would be addressed
> (e.g. UUID1.proxy.example.com and UUID2.proxy.example.com) A DNS
> wildcard entry *.proxy.example.com would make sure each proxy referral
> points to the same machine. Question: Is there a way to let Squid log
> the DNS name through which a client referred to it? I was not able to
> find any example in this regard and I assume that the proxy hostname
> is „lost“ after the client's DNS lookup and that the client-proxy
> connection is established.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
> 
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with the below directives, you can avoid all of this grief and reference
the client ip address where you need to.  just be sure the NAT adds the
XFF header.

#  TAG: follow_x_forwarded_for
#  TAG: acl_uses_indirect_client        on|off
#  TAG: delay_pool_uses_indirect_client on|off
#  TAG: log_uses_indirect_client        on|off
#  TAG: tproxy_uses_indirect_client     on|off