Re: Last resort for dead parent

On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Armin.Kunaschik@pc-plus.de wrote:
>
> > inside_firewall=*mydomain*.
> > If the parent is down I get the error "Host behind your fireall".
> > Is there a way to tell squid to get all objects directly *only* if the
> > parent is down?
>
> Don't use inside_firewall then. Without inside_firewall squid should try
> to go throught the parent unless the parent is down or Squid knows there
> is no point in going throught the parent.

Not quite, it will go to the parent most of the time, if you use ICP it
can decide to go direct if squid thinks your parent is too slow (see ICP
timeout in the config). Squid will also go direct for POSTs, and anything
in the heirarchy stop list. There is a config option to send POSTs to a
particular cache but this seems to have no fail safe DIRECT option.

I haven't yet been able to find a way to setup squid to fetch EVERYTHING
from it's parents unless all of them have gone away, then and only then
go direct.

From a cost management point of view (as opposed to performance
management) this facility would be very useful.

Seeya...Q

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Received on Mon Sep 28 1998 - 18:44:39 MDT