Re: too many DIRECTs

Do you have ICMP enabled? Squid may decide that it's faster to go
direct.
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Javier Puche. CSIC RedIRIS wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are worried now here about some caches having only one parent, via
> ICP, but going DIRECT too many times (~30%). Then I see that in the
> logs there are DIRECTs that:
>
> - do not match hierarchy stop list.
> - are GET request.
> - do not match local_domain neither local_ip.
> - the cache is not using ICMP
> - its parent cache is up.
>
> so, what other reasons are for that cache not to ask the parent before
> going direct ?? (we have checked it does not ask, as in the Server list
> at cachemgr.cgi it says 100% pings acked)
>
> I can guess:
>
> - Pages with pragma no-cache being refresh. But this should not be that
> high percentage.
>
> The guy running that cache tells me most of those requests logged have
> no mime-type (-), but I do not see any possible relation.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Javier Puche.

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