Re: how does this work exactly networking wise?

On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:02:30PM -0400, Matt Ashfield wrote:
> HI All,
>
> I am running squid on AIX. I got a call the other day from a person on my
> campus complaning of receiving 1500byte pings from my webcache box. I did
> some monitoring and noticed that it seems when a request hits my webcache,
> my webcache then does a ping of the server being requested. Is this standard
> practice? Or am I reading this wrong? If this is standard practice, why does
> the ping packet have to be so large?

It sounds to me like your squid is set up to think that his box is also
a cache, and is querying it with ICP (Inter-Cache Protocol), which
could look like a "large ping" to casual inspection.

Check your squid.conf file for "cache_peer" settings and see if it
points somewhere it shouldn't. (There are also configuration in which
Squid will ping potential peer caches to see which is best, but look
for the incorrect peer problem first which will fix either.)

  -- Clifton

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