Re: Netscape parent & redundancy

tech@brian.voerde.globvill.de writes:

>
>Hi,
>
>I got these questions:
>
>a. Is it possible to have a netscape proxy as a parent? I don't know much
> about netscape, but it is said to not support ICP-queries.
>
>b. As far as I understand squid asks it's parent whether it's got a certain
> object or whether it should go fetch it itself. When telling squid it sits
> behind a firewall it always uses the parent to get objects, like putting
> the 'slave'-option into /etc/named.boot. I am not behind a firewall, but
> I want squid to be in 'slave-mode'. What happens if I set the firewall-
> options and my parent fails, will squid fall back to get objects directly,
> or will it fail? Is this realisable with the mentioned netscape parent?

You cannot use the firewall configuration and still have Squid fetch
directly. You should be using a recent version of Squid (1.1.8 or
later) and try:

    cache_host foo parent 8080 7 no-query default

If your parent goes down, one user would get a "connection failed"
message, then all other requests will go direct. When Squid finds
that it can again make TCP connections to the parent, it will
stop going direct.

Duane W.
Received on Tue Apr 08 1997 - 08:47:16 MDT