Re: [squid-users] Load-balanced Squid, "always_direct", and Cached Content

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:20:06 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Merton Campbell Crockett wrote:

> If "always_direct" is used for systems in a specific domain, will a Squid
> proxy query its peers for cached content?

Squid will not query any peers on content where "always_direct" results in
"allow".

> If not, does this behaviour change when using NetDB?

No.

To do what you ask you should set up the peers as siblings of each other
(without using the allow-miss option). Siblings are only used if they have
a fresh copy of content and the first Squid goes direct if not.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Sep 18 2005 - 16:20:11 MDT

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