RE: [squid-users] always / never_direct

 
> Lo all,
>
> Can someone please just assit me with always/never_direct?
>
> I have two cache peers configured. The one will be used "per
> default", the
> other only for certain IP addresses.
>
> cache_peer x.x.x.x parent 3128 0
> cache_peer y.y.y.y parent 3128 0
>
> Then, I have a ACL to setup the certain IP addresses.
> acl blah dst a.a.a.a/b
>
> Lastly, I have the access list to allow only the certain
> addresses via the
> peer.
> cache_peer_access x.x.x.x allow blah
>
> Now, by default, my proxy seems to want to fetch everything
> directly and
> ignores the cache peers all together.
>
> I suspect what I need now, is always/never_direct, to force
> squid to ALWAYS
> use cache_peer x.x.x.x for acl blah, and ALWAYS use
> cache_peer y.y.y.y for
> the rest.
>
> Can anyone give me the one or two lines required? :)
>
> I tried never_direct deny blah (and always_direct deny blah)
> - to no avail
> though. Squid still hapily fetches the objects directly.
>
  You will need

        never_direct allow blah

 to prevent objects from 'blah' being fetched directly

 M.
Received on Wed Feb 09 2005 - 01:19:25 MST