confused about always_direct

i am trying to configure squid 2.2pre2 (and all previous version of squid
2) to operate as i had squid 1.1 working with no success...
what i am trying to achieve is going to a parent cache for all requests
except 2 certain c-class address which should go directly.

the lines i have in my configuration that apply here are as follows:

---start----
cache_peer proxy.intercoast.com.au parent 8080 3130

acl steve src 203.32.99.0/255.255.255.0
acl intercoast src 203.22.112.0/255.255.255.0
always_direct allow steve intercoast
---end---

yet in my logs i get:

---start---
918545709.316 6055 203.32.99.2 TCP_MISS/200 2531
GET http://www.smile.com.au/getvivo2.gif -
FIRST_PARENT_MISS/proxy.intercoast.com.au image/gif
918545711.446 26536 203.32.99.2 TCP_MISS/200 8070 GET
http://www.smile.com.au/apache-anim.gif -
FIRST_PARENT_MISS/proxy.intercoast.com.au image/gif
918545951.607 1658 203.32.99.2 TCP_MISS/401 662 GET
http://www.steve.intercoast.net.au/squid -
FIRST_PARENT_MISS/proxy.intercoast.com.au text/html
---end---

the ip address of www.smile.com.au is 203.22.112.16 and
www.steve.intercoast.net.au is 203.32.99.10 both of which fall into the
ranges specified by those acls defined above...

if anyone could shed some light on why squid is doing this i would
appreciate it...

thanx,

        Steve.
Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 01:31:16 MST