Squid Proxy question

[Michael Butash]

Squid is more for outbound proxy (inside to outside), not inbound (outside
to inside).  IE. you have 2-1000's of users connecting out, and want to
funnel them through an appliance to log what they do.

If you want inbound for web services and such like your 9 websites, better
off using nginx or haproxy to do so.  Nginx can give your unencrypted 80
access, and present tls-based services if you wanted to (who doesn't want
encryption?), even things like quic/http2/3 for faster protocols. HAProxy
is more base level tcp redirect function, but less about web services and
more at a L4 port decision, accomplishes the same minus TLS termination
nginx can/might.  People buy appliances like load-balancers to do these
sorts of things too.

-mb


On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 12:39 PM keith Miller via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> I have installed and been working now PfSense firewall awesome product
> I have about 9 domain I  host from home and through lack of knowledge also
> have 8 static IP's for those domains
> I have known about Squid proxy and I BELIEVE its ability to allow me to
> host all 8 domain behind one public IP
> pfsense has a installable module for squid proxy is my ASSUMPTION correct
> about what squid proxy does and if I install it
> will it mess with my working domain right now.
>
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