cache-parent dies to fast when i'm offline

hello,

this is my first time posting in here. I read (titles) of the FAQ and
found nothing appropriate to my question:

i'm using squid at my home network and it's not connected to the
internet most of the time.
frequently my squid declares the parent cache as dead and my browser
gives me the message:

<snip>
The following error was encountered:

     Unable to forward this request at this time.

This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any
parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that:

     The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct
connections to origin servers, and
     All configured parent caches are currently unreachable.

Generated Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:53:58 GMT by proxy.home-erdfunkstelle.de
(Squid/2.2.STABLE1)

</snip>

any idea where i can set a kind of timeout or disable the feature to
check my parents frequently?

thanks for answers, FAQ-urls or manpages

greetings,
Thomas Reitelbach
Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 11:59:38 MST