Re: Problems with parent proxy using squid 2.3 STABLE 2

Eric Nelson wrote:

> > 1) If linux 2 is configured in proxy mode (port 5000) and linux 2 is set
> > to use linux 1 as a parent proxy (port 5001), linux 2 will always send
> > requests to linux 1 on port 80 instead of parent proxy port (5001). Squid
> > running on Linux 1 will not see this request as it comes in on the wrong
> > port. Here is my line in squid.conf on linux 2:
> >
> > cache_peer 192.168.2.100 parent 5001 0 no-query default long=test:test

Are you sure on this? Never heard anything like it before. Only thing I
can think of is that linux 1 simply ignores the parent and tries to go
direct to the origin source, but then it should try connecting there and
not port 80 on linux 2.

See never_direct and prefer_direct directives.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker