Worked like a charm, added a never_direct all and it worked. I was assuming that if a parent was specified it would use it first then use direct if the parent was unreachable.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Henrik Nordstrom Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 5:44 PM To: Mark A Lewis Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [squid-users] Not using parent proxy Parents are by default only used if Squid sees any use of using the parents.. For situations where you are behind a firewall and MUST use the parents see "Squid FAQ 4.8 How do I configure Squid to work behind a firewall?". http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/ Regards Henrik Mark A Lewis wrote: > > I am having some real problems with a squid box not using its parent > proxies. > > Here is what I have setup proxy.foo.com configured with 2 parent > proxies (parent1.foo.com and parent2.foo.com) with round-robin > no-query proxy-only options. > > There are no parents/siblings setup on parent1 or parent2, each has a > different visible hostname. > > Here is the problem, proxy.foo.com is not sending any requests to the > parents. It always tries to retrieve the page itself. Am I missing > something here? If there is a parent defined does squid always use it? > If it isn't why not? I assume that I do not have to tell the parents > about the "child". > > Here is a snipit from my squid.conf on proxy.foo.com > > cache_peer parent1.foo.com parent 3128 3130 no-query round-robin > proxy-only cache_peer parent2.foo.com parent 3128 3130 no-query > round-robin proxy-only > > Any ideas or other information that would help? > > ********************************************************** > This message was virus scanned at siliconjunkie.net and > any known viruses were removed. For a current virus list > see http://www.siliconjunkie.net/antivirus/list.html
