[squid-users] Non-permanent Internet Connection Question

We are working on a new project where we will distribute Linux machines
in different areas that will be connected to the Internet. But these
machines might not have a Internet connection always. We would like
these machines to show certain web pages from a web server on a loop.
For example I have 7 pages that jump to one to another after 7 - 10
seconds. But if the Internet connection goes down we want squid to keep
showing the loop of HTML pages until the connection get restored and
then squid could update the pages in the cache. I have tried to go
through the documentation and see if I could get it all configured by
myself. But I am having some issues still.

The problem I am having is on one of the pages that has flash it is
always trying to get the latest version. It does this as well for a
couples of pages that have a graphic on them. If I unplug the internet
connection to this machine and let it run through the loop it will
always stop on the pages it likes to get content for and says in the
browser (101) Error Network is Unreacable. I had thought that using the
negative_ttl would stop that but I am not sure what to do. I have the
following setup in my squid.conf file and I know I will have somethings
wrong and if I could find out why it isn't caching the page or why it
isn't using the cached page I would appreciate it.

########################################################################
http_port 80
cache_mem 64 MB
maximum_object_size 8182 KB
cache_dir ufs /cache 100 16 256
access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
hosts_file /etc/hosts
refresh_pattern . 14400 80% 43200 ignore-no-cache
negative_ttl 720 minutes # 12 hours
negative_dns_ttl 30 minute
connect_timeout 45 seconds
########################################################################

Blake Grover
IT Manager
EZ-NetTools

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Received on Fri Sep 21 2007 - 07:36:09 MDT