Re: Suggestion to improve it

On Sep 3, 19:31, Christian Koenigseder wrote:
>
> 1.) A further variable in squid.conf, which enforces "squid" always to
look at
> first in the cache and if this is not successfully than to do an
dns-
> lookup. Only a "Reload" enforces to do a direct dns-lookup!

This is called the "Fast Demo Mode" in the Netscape proxy server.
>
> 2.) If a WWW-Page couldn't be found, since the dns-lookup failed, look
always
> additionally in the cache. If the desired WWW-Page is already in the
cache,
> use this one.

Point 2.) should be sufficient, because DNS look-up with the phone on the
hook should return failure with no delay. You might like to add a
parameter saying what to do about expired objects in the cache (perhaps
have connection-failure specific TTL patterns in addition to normal TTLs).

>
> Please give an short answer "YES" or "NO" if this will be implemented
soon.
>
The Netscape proxy server has already implemented roughly your suggestion,
with a few frills added. Perhaps you should buy their's?

[[I had to move from Netscape to Squid, but then heavy load is probably
not going to be your problem.]]

Regards,

Andreas

-- 
Andreas Strotmann       / ~~~~~~ \________________A.Strotmann@Uni-Koeln.DE
Universitaet zu Koeln  /| University of Cologne   \
Regionales Rechenzentrum| Regional Computer Center \
Robert-Koch-Str. 10    /|    Tel: +49-221-478-5524 |\   Home: -221-4200663
D-50931  Koeln        __|__  FAX: +49-221-478-5590 |__________~~~~~~~~~~~~