Re: squid/dial-out-on-demand

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On a dial-on-demand network (a PC/Linux runs squid and another one is the Ethernet<->ISDN router), I noticed that Squid doesn't seem to like failures to connect (for instance when the remote router is down). I have to kill -HUP Squid when it happens. Mysterious.

There's an easy fix. Look in neighbors.c in the function peerCheckConnectStart().
About four lines down you see:

    p->tcp_up = 0;

Change the zero to a one, and squid will never mark a peer (parent or neighbour) down, regardless of the error. It'll try every time a request is made.

You might consider the connect_retry patch as well.

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