Re: [squid-users] Go direct if parent dies

If you want Squid to go direct then you cannot use never_direct..

See also prefer_direct.

Regards
Henrik

On Thursday 20 February 2003 19.35, Christoph Haas wrote:
> Hi, folks...
>
> We want to use a proxy chain consisting of Squid and another proxy
> server on the same host. The user asks squid:3128 and the request
> is being forwarded to the only configured parent proxy:
>
> cache_peer localhost parent 9090 0 no-query
>
> My [always|never]_direct settings are:
>
> always_direct allow url.lan
> always_direct deny all
>
> This works great when my parent proxy server (which filters URLs
> for pornography and other topics btw) is up and running. But
> sometimes it has to be restarted and the port 9090 is temporarily
> not available. Guess what - Squid treats the second proxy as a
> "dead parent" and refuses to contact it. The user get's an error
> message.
>
> What I would like Squid to do is: use the parent when it is
> available. If the parent can't be reached then try to contact the
> destination server directly. I could only make the Squid either
> going always directly or failing on a dead parent (which annoys
> users).
>
> What would be the right way to configure this? I have browsed
> through groups.google.com for hours but did not find anything
> useful. I doubt that my setup it that weird.
>
> Christoph
Received on Thu Feb 20 2003 - 13:28:15 MST