Re: [squid-users] what is the maximum number of hosts squid can accelerate to?

Well,

what we do here is:

One real domain:
domain.example.com (Squid server port 80)

 - This server runs a redirect program witch translates all requests to:
   cluster.my_lan
 - Also it runs a Bind server running on 127.0.0.1 wich points "cluster.my_lan"
   to 50 backend Apache web servers.

This works perfectly if we configure Bind to translate "cluster.my_lan" for a
number of servers that is less than or equal 29. Anything greater than that
squid replies with:

"No DNS records"

What I can speculate is that the variable that holds the answer the DNS gave
Squid when it requested the addres for "cluster.my_lan" is not big enough.

Or that when I compilled Squid, it didn't use the right libs. (Eg. libdns from
bind8 instead of bind9).

Here is a sample of some squid.conf varibles:

dns_nameservers 127.0.0.1
redirect_program /var/squid/squid.redirector.pl
httpd_accel_host virtual
httpd_accel_port 80

If there is any other info I can provide just tell me. Again, it works just
right with less than 30 servers.

Thanx a Lot!!

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:50:04PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luiz Chopin C. Oliveira wrote:
>
> >i have a squid that works as a httpd accelerator, until today it was
> >accelerating for a cluster of 10 http servers, but our site has gown a lot
> >and
> >now I need acceleration for a 50 machines cluster.
> >
> >I configured it just as usual, but it didn't work, than I reduced de
> >number of
> >hosts in the bind server to 25 and it worked. I started increasing this
> >number
> >and found it stop's working with 30 hosts.
>
> Squid-2.5 supports up to 128 http_port directives, each with an unlimited
> number of accelerated domains.
>
> How is your accelerator setup done?
>
> Regards
> Henrik

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