Re: [squid-users] unable to forward this request at this time

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Rost, Werner wrote:

> "unable to forward this request at this time"
>
>
> Stil we obtain problems connecting to websites (peak times?).
> Message of explorer:
>
> Unable to forward this request at this time.
> This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any
> parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that:
>
> The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct
> connections to origin servers, and
> All configured parent caches are currently unreachable.
>
>
>
> There are following entries cache.log:
>
> 2001/05/15 15:12:24| Failed to select source for 'http:...'
> 2001/05/15 15:12:24| always_direct = -1
> 2001/05/15 15:12:24| never_direct = 1
> 2001/05/15 15:12:24| timedout = 0
>
>
> Environment: SQUID 2.3 Stable 4
> Compq ALPHA Tru64 4.0E
>
>
> What I did:
>
> 1. Changed the value of "peer_connect_timeout" to 60 seconds in
> squid.conf
> ---> no effect
>
> 2. Additional DNS server in squid.conf
> ---> no effect
>
>
> What can we dow now?

Is one of your parent caches marked as 'default'?
Received on Tue May 15 2001 - 13:11:56 MDT