Re: Problems with parent proxy using squid 2.3 STABLE 2

If everything worked fine using 2.1.PATCH2 then "prefer_direct off" is
most likely what you want, not never_direct. With never_direct Squid
won't even try to go direct if the parent is dead.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Eric Nelson wrote:
> 
> This was the problem!  I was using squid 2.1 PATCH 2 and everything was
> working fine.  When I upgraded to squid 2.3 STABLE 2 and used the same
> squid.conf file, the parent functionality was broken.  However, after adding
> the never_direct lines things worked again.
> 
> Thank you for the help,
> 
> Eric Nelson
> ericn@extendsys.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]
> Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 3:01 PM
> To: Eric Nelson
> Cc: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: Problems with parent proxy using squid 2.3 STABLE 2
> 
> Squid-2.2 and later more or less ignores non-ICP peers (no-query) unless
> "prefer_direct off" or "never_direct allow" is used (prefer_direct off
> to make it prefer to use parents over direct or never_direct allow to
> force it to use parents).