Re: [squid-users] Forwarding loops...

On fre, 2008-07-11 at 03:57 -0700, John Doe wrote:
> Works fine for a while... until the digests are exchanged.
> As expected, my logs are full of forwarding loops detected.

Hmm... you SHOULD NOT see loops unless you are using the allow-miss
cache_peer option, as by default Squid adds a "Cache-Control:
only-if-cached" control to requests sent to siblings.

Are you playing games with the Cache-Control header somewhere?

> To solve this, I tried to prevent a squid from querying a sibling on behalf of another sibling:
>
> example of squid1.conf:
> cache_peer 192.168.17.12 sibling 8000 3130 proxy-only name=squid2
> cache_peer 192.168.17.13 sibling 8000 3130 proxy-only name=squid3
> cache_peer 192.168.17.14 sibling 8000 3130 proxy-only name=squid4
>
> acl from_squids src 192.168.17.12
> acl from_squids src 192.168.17.13
> acl from_squids src 192.168.17.14
>
> cache_peer_access squid2 deny from_squids
> cache_peer_access squid3 deny from_squids
> cache_peer_access squid4 deny from_squids
>
> But it is not helping...

That should defenitely help.

What is said in access.log?

Regards
Henrik