{"id":8,"date":"2015-01-14T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.ngtech.co.il\/wpe\/?p=8"},"modified":"2015-01-14T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:37:10","slug":"squid-3-4-10-rpms-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.ngtech.co.il\/wpe\/2015\/01\/14\/squid-3-4-10-rpms-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Squid 3.4.10 RPMs release"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am happy to release the new RPMs of squid 3.4.10 and 3.5.0.4 beta for Centos 6.6 64bit and 32bit .<\/span><\/p>\n

The new release includes couple bug fixes and improvements.
\nThe links to the RPMs are at the bottom of the article.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if a human would act as a proxy server?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n


\nOne of the hardest jobs on the planet earth would be a \u201cproxy\u201d that needs to connect between a requester and the right response. The proxy would need first to identify the request and understand it properly and then needs to decide what to lookup in the database for a corresponding response.
\nIt’s a very messy job since the source IP and all the request characteristics should be answered. In many cases the request will not give enough information about the wanted response and the user will need to request another time for the requested data. I would assume that it would require some buildings to be populated with lots of \u201cproxies\u201d to fulfill all humans web requests. But the reality is not that far from this fantasy.
\nIf you would look at the world you would see that lots of humans just act as a simple proxy between someone to somebody else or something else. A nice example would be when you go to a wood store to buy some woods for a fire. If this would be your first time you would not know the prices and wood kinds while the wood-shop guy would know more then you. He then acts as a proxy between your mind and his to understand the different kinds of wood that can fulfill your needs while giving you the prices.
\nAnd while writing I am thinking about it again, and one of the hardest jobs there are in the market is the \u201cMatch Maker\u201d. Just to illustrate that a human would have been a proxy and a \u201cMatch Maker\u201d. Actually a \u201cMatch Maker\u201d job would be to take two different minds and put them together while understanding them both enough to make them both happy about the meetings.
\nSo how would a \u201cMatch Maker\u201d would act if he was a proxy? He would need to fetch or get from the clients information about their wishes and analyze their requests to find a matching pair. From the requester side he needs something, a companion.
\nBut from the \u201cMatch Maker\u201d point of view there is a need to actually find a match which would stick for a very long time and that would not cause harm while building love and harmony. I am not a \u201cMatch Maker\u201d but I do believe that a simple piece of software can help the human which actually needs help from others to do other tasks which a proxy cannot do good enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

* Any notes and comments are wanted and welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

For this release I am attaching a video link about DDos and the vulnerabilities of the Linux kernel:<\/span><\/p>\n

– DDoS protection using Netfilter iptables from Jesper Dangaard Brouer<\/span><\/p>\n