Re: Strange squid behavior

                Hi,

On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Duane Wessels wrote:

> sakr@Chg.RU writes:
>
> >Dear Squiders,
> >
> >Time to time my squid send to WWW client the following message:
> >
> >The following error was encountered:
> > Unable to Retrieve
> >
> >The system returned:
> >
> > No ICP replies received and the host is beyond the firewall.
> >The cache administrator may need to double-check the cache configuration.
> >
> >This means that:
> > The requested URL can not currently be retrieved.
> >
> >
> >
> >Squid version - 1.0.16, OS - FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE (both Squid caches).
> >
> >Could somebody help me reach robust work of Squid.
>
> you must have a sibling neighbor as well as a parent?
>
> if you're behind a firewall and have only one neighbor (a parent) you
> should turn on 'single_parent_bypass' in the config.
>
> I don't know enough about your configuration, but I wonder if it
> would help to comment out these two lines in neighbors.c:
>
> /* skip any cache where we failed to connect() w/in the last 60s */
> if (squid_curtime - e->last_fail_time < 60)
> continue;
> Duane W.

I've had the same problem here with FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE and
squid-1.0.15/16 few weeks ago, but after upgrading to squid-1.0.17/18
all problems (not really but this one ;) went away.

maybe this helps

        Andreas Laumann

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