RE: [squid-users] Routing to multiple Parent proxies

>> 3. I need the replacement and changing of these proxies to be as
>> dynamic as possible

>Don't quite get what the requirement is here... care to give a few
>examples what you refer to by "as dynamic as possible".

What I meant by this was the ability to change the list of parents, if
possible dynamically, say by reading a new set of parents, from a file
or list specified somewhere, in the event that one or more of the
existing parents goes offline. This is also necessary if I need to
maintain the parent list, without having to always modify the squid.conf
file.

I also would like to know the full syntax of specifying an acl that the
contents should be read from a file, instead of listing each entry on
the line. This will aid me in specifying my always_direct websites.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:49 PM
To: Adeoye Oke
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Routing to multiple Parent proxies

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Adeoye Oke wrote:

> The constraints I have to work with are:
> 1. The parent proxies do not support ICP queries

So you need prefer_direct off or never_direct.

> 2. Some of the proxies become really slow, so I would need to send
> requests to the faster proxies first.

For this you basically need ICP.

Alternatively it might be possible to extend Squid with some statistics
trying to measure the "slowness" of a parent HTTP proxy to mostly avoid
very slow parents, but this is also heavily depending on the sites and
content accessed and not so easy to get correct.

> 3. I need the replacement and changing of these proxies to be as
> dynamic as possible

Don't quite get what the requirement is here... care to give a few
examples what you refer to by "as dynamic as possible".

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Oct 30 2003 - 14:44:53 MST