What version of SquidGuard are you using? I'm using 1.1.4 and it does block all subdomains. How do you have the domains listed in you db file? Just whatever.com or www.whatever.com?
John Yatsko, Jr. Technology Assistant Erie County Public Library 160 East Front St Erie PA 16507 (814) 451-7307 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Squidguard Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Robin Lynn Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:12 PM Subject: RE: logging doesn't occur > ----- Robin Lynn Frank wrote: ----- > > One question... squidGuard does not appear to > > have any way of including all subdomains > > like *.doubleclick.net, does iit??? > > I'm glad you asked that, because I've been wanting a clarification > on that very issue. > > I originally thought that placing the root domain doubleclick.net in > the domains file would catch everything with that root domain. In > fact, the configuration page of the documentation agrees: > ----- Clip from http://www.squidguard.org/config/ ------------- > Note: squidGuard will match any URL with the domainname itself an > any subdomains and hosts (i.e. amex.com, www.amex.com, > whatever.amex.com and www.what.ever.amex.com but not .*[^.]amex.com > (i.e. aamex.com etc.)). > ---------------- End of Clip ---------------------------------- > > But like you, I ran into a problem with doubleclick.net. I had > doubleclick.net in my domains file, but ad.doubleclick.net and > ln.doubleclick.net were getting through. I was only able to redirect > on those two by adding them to my domains file (contrary to the > documentation). > > I have a couple of questions: > > Has that behavior changed in squidGuard-1.2.0? (i.e. does it do what > the documentation says it does?) If not, is there another way to > block all possible subdomains? > > Thanks! > Rick >
