Re: [squid-users] Using squid as a CDN like.

Hi and thanks a lot for your answer.
It confirms what I thought :o(
And unfortunately the squids won't be on the same lan at all.
In so far as I have a lot of little data chunks to propagate, I'm going to think about an "intelligent" way to pull them to the distant squids.
Best regards,
JLT

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> El sep 20, 2011 8:03 a.m., "Jean-luc Tresset" < jltresset_at_anevia.com >
> escribió:
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > I'm currently thinking about the best way to build a little CDN like
> > system based on squid. I've already understood how to manage the DNS
> > problems, but I wonder what is the best way to push the same content
> > at the "same time" on different server. Is it possible with squid ?
> >
> > Regards,
> > JLT
>
> Hi Jean,
>
> Well as you don't give too much informatio, I guess you want to have
> many squids distributed and depending somekind of dns load balancing
> squid1 or squidN shall answer. I also asume you are taling in reverse
> proxy schema.
>
> Well, first bad news is that it is kind imposible to push objects in
> cache. So, if you want to warm it, you shall do a script to pull
> objects throug squid until they get in.
>
> The good news is that there is a way to workarround your request. You
> may use peers squid with multicast capabilitie (multicast is optional,
> only if all squids are in same lan). Use your peers with a ttl=5, it
> is fater to ask a peear than a http parent.
>
> LD
> http://www.twitter.com/ldlq
Received on Tue Sep 20 2011 - 15:22:10 MDT