Re: 503 errors with multiple parents

On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Towers, Tim (London) wrote:

> Version: 2.2.STABLE4
> Cache_peer entries:
> gatekeeper.uk.ml.com Parent 80 7 no-query login=xx:xx
> ldnweb1.uk.ml.com Sibling 8080 3130 proxy-only
> ldnas2.uk.ml.com Sibling 8071 8073 proxy-only
> mlamrs-proxy.us.ml.com Parent 8080 7 no-query
>
> I've got a squid with two parents, one in the UK and
> one in the states. Unfortunately our UK parent (gatekeeper)
> often gets overloaded and returns 503 errors.
>
> It seems that the us parent is never used.
> I can't see why this is the case, and even if there's
> some weighting that I've got wrong - shouldn't squid
> try the other parent if the main parent returns a
> 503 (too busy) error.

yes it should.

Whats your cache manager say about "server_list"

        % ./client mgr:server_list

Duane W.
Received on Sat Mar 04 2000 - 03:36:19 MST