Re: [squid-users] About log file record

ANY_PARENT is one of the peer selection mechanisms. When never_direct is
true, ICP does not find a peer, you do not have a "default" parent and
so on, squid as a last resort tries any parent..

Regards
Henrik

Oleg Sorokin wrote:
>
> Hello,
> can anybody describe what does the record in access.log file
> mean:
> x.x.x.x urlhttp://somewhere.in.the.net TCP_MISS:ANY_PARENT
> on a child cache with the record in the squid.conf file:
>
> never_direct allow all
>
> and both the child & parent caches in the private network.Parent
> cache doesn't have any upper level caches...
>
> that means, as i understand, ( never_direct allow all ) doesn't
> allow to download pages directly, but only using parent cache
> which is defined as
>
> cache_peer y.y.y.y 3128 0 ...
>
> if a child cache can't find requested page in the personal cache it
> redirects
> the request for the parent cache, if parent cache can't find the requested
> page it refers directly...right???
>
> so, why the record ANY_PARENT appears in the access.log of the child
> cache???
> there should be only ( theoreticaly ):
>
> DEFAULT_PARENT ( parent cache )
> NONE ( self cache )
>
> for all requests.....
>
> can anybody describe the functionality of such configuration...???
> pls, really need help for understanding....
>
> thanks in advance,
> Oleg
Received on Fri Dec 07 2001 - 16:16:47 MST