Re: Two Squids Possible ?

Dear all,

> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> > >>> David Ramahefason wrote
> > > I'd like to know if it is possible to have two proxy on two machines...
> > > that runs together (on for production and one in backup).
> > > In fact I'd like to have a rescue proxy in the case the principal fails
> >
> > There are a couple of ways to do this - one is to use a Cisco Local
> > Director, and sit it in front of a couple of boxes, it loadshares,
> > switches over if one fails, that sort of thing. proxy.connect.com.au
> > does this. Another way, if your clients are using Netscape, is to build
> > a proxy autoconfig file that does this. I have no idea whether other
> > browsers support this. (Wasn't there going to be an Internet Explorer
> > for Unix released?)
>
> This might be a solution too. However Netscape only reads the proxy
> autoconfig file at start. So the user must explictly reload the proxy
> autoconfig file. Because users are mostly stupid that's a bad solution :-)
>
Hmmm.. I though the the auto configure option in Netscape will check
periodically if the first assigned proxy-server is available again in case
of a previous failure. It will switch to alternative proxy-servers in case
of a failure..

Cheers, Henny

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