proxy caching

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help in my understanding of the way Squid works.
I'm currently questioning whether Squid is actually reading from my
cached drive.

The primary box I use for caching is on shell.gnxs.com.au, this is on my
local linux box, and is where I want all web requests brought to if the
pages are cached here, after that, it should check the neighbors. 98% of
all clients are located on bbs.npgx.com.au, which is connected via
ethernet lan to the shell.gnxs.com.au linux box.

My setup follows (the options I show below are what I've actually set, all
the rest of the options are on default values):

I've currently setup two neighbors (I don't understand the difference
between parents and neighbors):

cache_host abyss.aiss.net.au neighbor 3128 3130
cache_host www.geko.net.au neighbor 3128 3130

My local domain I've set is:

local_domain shell.gnxs.com.au gnxs.com.au

I have not got the local_ip setting set for speed purposes.

neighbor_timeout 8

cache_mem 16

cache_swap 170

client_lifetime 300

shutdown_lifetime 30

acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0

acl SSL_ports port 443 563
acl CONNECT method CONNECT

http_access deny manager !localhost
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
icp_access allow all

dns_testnames shell.gnxs.com.au zonk.geko.net.au internic.net usc.edu
cs.colorado.edu mit.edu yale.edu

Considering the link here is not superfast, are those settings
appropriate? Because when looking in my hierarchy.log file, I always seem
to notice that although I know the pages are cached here, it never logs a
hit here but only on neighbors.

The proxy used to run superfast, but nowadays is very slow.

Any help here is appreciated. Thankyou.

MIC!!!
NPGX Pty Ltd.
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