I'm surpised squid even recovered from trying to do an acl for every blacklist entry. Use squidguard, it is very simple to use. www.squidguard.org Tim Christoph Haas <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 01/17/2006 02:28 PM To squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Re: blacklist On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:01, Cristina Tanzi Tolenti wrote: > I would like yo use the blacklists that I downloaded from > http://urlblacklist.com/, some files are very large: 10-15MB. I create > an ACL for every blacklist > Why SQUID don't work (or it's very very slow) with the largest > blacklists? I believe that redirectors like SquidGuard will be faster with such large lists. Which ACL type did you choose in Squid? dstdomain? Because url_regex will surely slow the process down a lot. Also: what does "don't work" mean? Kindly Christoph -- Never trust a system administrator who wears a tie and suit.