RE: [squid-users] Peer Caches between Squid 2.5.STABLE9 and 2.4STABLE7 giving trouble

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Babs [mailto:arvbab@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:41 PM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Peer Caches between Squid 2.5.STABLE9 and
> 2.4STABLE7 giving trouble
>
>
> Hi all,
> I got a parent cache running 2.4STABLE7 on RH8.0. I am
> making a sibling cache for it on FC4 with Squid
> 2.5.STABLE9. I have used the cache_peer directive in
> the sibling squid.conf to access the net through
> parent proxy, but I am getting request timeouts when I
> browse through the sibling proxy. This is puzzling me
> bcoz I got another sibling running FC3 with squid
> 2.5.STABLE8 and it is working without any problem.(btw
> this FC3 box is going to be replaced with a better
> hardware).I have checked everything to make sure I
> didnt configured anything wrong.
>
> the cache_peer directive on the working FC3 sibling as
> follows
>
> cache_peer 172.16.5.2 parent 3128 0 no_query
> default

Are you sure that's what is actually there (no_query)? See below.

>
> This is working perfectly fine
>
> my cache_peer directive on the new FC4 sibling as
> follows
> cache_peer 172.16.5.2 parent 3128 0 default
>
> and this is giving me timeouts
>

The FC4 box is trying to use ICP queries on port 0, not getting a response and returning time out errors.

> Btw when I configured the new FC4 box with the
> "cache_peer 172.16.5.2 parent 3128 0 no_query
> default" statement this gave me error and squid
> refused to start until I removed the "no_query"
> statement out of it.

That is likely because the directive you want is no-query (notice the hyphen instead of the underscore).

>
> Someone pls tell me what may be went wrong , why this
> problem is happening
>
> Thanx a lot

Hope that helps,

Chris
Received on Thu Jul 07 2005 - 14:28:05 MDT