Re: New user badly needs help...

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 96 10:06:06 +0100

On Friday 6 December 96, at 5 h 55, the keyboard of "Leo A. David"
<ldavid@rizal.ph.net> wrote:

> I had downloaded the latest SQUID program, Squid-1.0.20.gz, read the

The latest is now Squid 1.1.0. Since it is quite different from 1.0.x
(configuration file *and* cache space format), I suggest, if you just
start the project, to begin directly with Squid 1.1.0.

> I had placed the SQUID not in my web server (gabriela.ph.net[
> 165.220.3.1]) but in a different server named pira.ph.net.[165.220.3.40] Is
> this possible?

No problem. This is common.

> What should I execute? Is it the squid or RunAccel to start the
> proxy caching of internet objects?

squid, directly or through RunCache (your choice).
 
> Should I leave squid "on" 24-hrs a day?

Typically yes, Of course, if the cache serves a local network which is
down every night, this is not useful...
 
Received on Mon Dec 09 1996 - 01:25:59 MST

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