rejecting connections

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Something that's come up in conversation lately -

We see the scenario that from time to time the amount of traffic
flowing through a particular cache server exceeeds what it's able to
deal with. OK, so we reroute some of the traffic through other
servers, but in the meantime it would be useful for the overloaded
cache to be able to either refuse connections or (perhaps) return an
ICP message telling peering servers not to talk to it for a while.

I'm thinking that this could be based on something like the length of
time taken to deliver a cached object to a client, and/or the number
of requests per second being dealt with - configurable via squid.conf.

Obviously this isn't going to be suitable for everyone, but it would
be handy for people in our position - parents to lots of other Squids.

Just wondering if people have any opinions either way...

Ciao!

Martin

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Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:49 MDT