[squid-users] Large text ACL lists

[Alex Rousskov]

On 09/29/2016 03:42 PM, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote:
> Well, forgive me for bad mouthing the developers here, but I think this
> is a good reason.

It is not. Badmouthing, for any reason, has no positive side effects and
may have many negative ones.


> it would be better
> to actually have something in your error log indicating where the
> problem is, rather than just having squid shit on itself and have zero
> indication of how or why it happened

Please file a bug report with specifics if you have not already.


> but we are also, unlike the competitors, ...
> we are actually doing our job rather than ...

Please do your best to avoid disparaging competitors on this mailing
list, regardless of whether you think your comments are 100% accurate.
Many of the "blacklisting" posts (not just yours) are already in the
"advertisement" red zone, and with the attacks added, the Project would
have to police the mailing list. That would not be a good use of
volunteers time!


Thank you,

Alex.


> On 9/29/2016 4:29 PM, Darren wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> What I am trying to do is to simplify everything and remove the
>> external re-writers from the workflow due to the fact that they are
>> either old with sporadic development or wrap their own lists into the
>> solution.
>>
>> I am also producing my own ACL lists for this project so third party
>> blacklists will not work for me. 
>>
>> Squid has a lot more smarts and is very active in development so I
>> think it would be a more complete robust solution if I can get a
>> handle on how it behaves when parsing large ACL files.
>>
>> My ACL's will be stored on a Ram based drive so speed there should not
>> be an issue.
>>
>> Looking at the config samples at squidblackist.org, you seem to pump
>> massive ACL lists through the dstdomain acl so maybe that is anecdotal
>> evidence that this will work OK.
>>
>> Darren B.
>>
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>>>
>>> On 30/09/2016 1:43:33 AM, Benjamin E. Nichols
>>> <webmaster at squidblacklist.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> The other issue is that shalla and urlblacklist produce garbage
>>> blacklists, and neither of them are actively developing or improving
>>> the backend technology required to product high quality blacklists.
>>>
>>> We are the leading publisher of blacklists tailored for Web Filtering
>>> Purposes.
>>>
>>> We are also the only commercial source for Squid Native ACL. Yes, we
>>> have it.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/29/2016 4:44 AM, Darren wrote:
>>>> Hi All
>>>>
>>>> I have been tinkering with Squidguard for a while, using it to
>>>> manage ACL lists and time limits etc.
>>>>
>>>> While it works OK, it's not in active development and has it's issues.
>>>>
>>>> What are the limitations with just pumping ACL lists directly into
>>>> Squid and letting it do all the work internally without running a
>>>> team of squidguards?
>>>>
>>>> how efficient is squid now at parsing the text files directly, will
>>>> i Need more ram as the list grows? Is it slower or are their
>>>> optimizations that I can do?
>>>>
>>>> thanks all
>>>>
>>>> Darren Breeze
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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