RE: [squid-users] More than one default parent

Hi,
I had the same experience and now use an autoconfiguration script to handle
this. This works very well.
BR,
./koen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: --==[bMan]==-- [mailto:bmynarski@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 24 January 2002 00:56
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] More than one default parent
>
>
> O.K. I thought I had it but it's still not working properly.
>
> Here are my two lines from squid.conf:
>
> cache_peer parent cache1.foo.org 8080 0 weight=1
> always_direct deny all
> cache_peer parent cache2.foo.org 8080 0 weight=2
> always_direct deny all
>
> My thinking was that if the first proxy goes down, my cache could
> automatically flip to the second (that's why I used
> 'weight'). However, from
> what I have observed, 'weight' tag has absolutely no
> difference in the way
> squid grabs its parent cache. It's ALWAYS the first in the
> line. If the
> first is down, it never goes down to the second. Henrik N.,
> please, explain
> to me what I am doing wrong here or maybe it's something that
> cannot be done
> with Squid?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Bolek,
> e-mail: bman@bolek.com
>
>
>
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Received on Thu Jan 24 2002 - 06:18:34 MST