Re: Best configuration for fail-over?

The current setup of Squid wont solve your problem. It will use the
alternative only if it does not receive ICP replies from one of them. In
your case it will return Error for not seeing the Internet.

Irfan Akber

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> From: Jason Haar <Jason.Haar@trimble.co.nz>
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Best configuration for fail-over?
> Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 10:21 PM
>
> Hi there
>
> We are going to be altering our Internet connectivity topology in the
near
> future and I'm trying to figure out the best way to have Squid configured
to
> deal with it.
>
> Soon we will have two separate Internet links via different networks,
both
> of which will be our Squid "parents". What I want is for our proxies to
only
> talk exclusively to one parent until that parent reports it can't see the
> Internet anymore (due to it's WAN link going down), at that stage our
squid
> servers should start talking to the other network's parent instead.
>
> Should I use the 'default' keyword for a last-resort parent? What I don't
> know is when is a parent defined as being "down"? Is it when it stops
> responding (no good for what I need) or is it when it says it can't
connect
> to the sites you are after...?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Cheers
>
> Jason Haar
>
> Unix/Network Specialist, Trimble NZ
> Phone: +64 3 3391 377 Fax: +64 3 3391 417
Received on Fri Feb 19 1999 - 08:54:15 MST