I have a setup where I have Squid installed locally on a laptop which, depending on where it is, home or office, forwards it's queries to the 'real' home or office proxy, both called 'http-proxy'.
Now from time to time I work from home via a VPN, which is when Squid does not find it's parent cache anymore. In VPN mode 'http-proxy' does not work anymore and when I enter the fully qualified name dirrectly into the browsers proxy configuration (http-proxy.mycompany.com) it's ok.
Of course I don't want to keep changing proxy entries, so I configured squid.conf as follows, hoping that the right parent would be chosen when the default is not available due to VPN:
cache_peer http-proxy parent 8000 8001 default cache_peer http-proxy.mycompany.com parent 8000 8001
Maybe (probably) I just don't understand the selection algorithm but any help is welcome.
Cheers, Caro
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