Re: Patch to allow purging of ipcache entries for RETRY_PATCH

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:01:05 +0200

Michael Pelletier wrote:

> which is on by default in 1.1.22, then the only way an entry can leave
> the IP cache is for its timeout to expire. This is so that addresses
> which stop responding can be marked as BAD, and retried later without
> another DNS lookup. However, this means that if a host's IP address
> changes, you have to wait until the ipcache entry expires
> (positive_dns_ttl, defaults to 6 hours) or restart Squid to clear out
> that entry.

You should do new DNS query if all known IP numbers are bad. Manual
action should not be required when a host changes address.

/Henrik
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:51 MDT

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