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Re: Logging of 'indirect' requests, e.g. involving NAT or VPN

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Leonardo Rodrigues writes:

> Em 24/06/15 15:28, Henry S. Thompson escreveu:
>> I've searched the documentation and mailing list archives w/o success,
>> and am not competent to read the source, so asking here: what is
>> logged as the 'remotehost' in Squid logs when a request that has been
>> encapsulated, as in from a machine on a local network behind a router
>> implementing NAT, or from a machine accessing the proxy via a VPN
>> connection?
>
>     logs will show the IP address that reached squid, ie. the source
> address of the connection. If that was NATted, squid will never know
> (and thus is not able to log) the original address before the NAT.

That's what I assumed, but in a log I've been working with for
research purposes, 192.168.... turns up -- how is this possible given
what you say?

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