> We have been using squid in the following configuration since the end year > 2000. > > Outward facing public squid servers serve content for multiple hosts. > Behind the public servers is a middle layer of squid servers that hide > the real origin servers. > The real origin servers are various content management systems and > flat file Apache web servers. > > The middle layer is using squid 2.5.11 along with jesred. > The many to many relationship of host name to origin server is just > two lines in the squid.conf > httpd_accel_host virtual > httpd_accel_uses_host_header on > > A non public dns takes care of host names coming and going. When we > change the rewrite rules we just run squid -k reconfigure. > > > Is there a configuration for squid 2.6.16 which avoids having to > maintain a list of source and destination host names in squid.conf? > Yes its possible. I'm doing it in real time. Amos