Netscape parent & redundancy

Hi,

I got these questions:

a. Is it possible to have a netscape proxy as a parent? I don't know much
   about netscape, but it is said to not support ICP-queries.

b. As far as I understand squid asks it's parent whether it's got a certain
   object or whether it should go fetch it itself. When telling squid it sits
   behind a firewall it always uses the parent to get objects, like putting
   the 'slave'-option into /etc/named.boot. I am not behind a firewall, but
   I want squid to be in 'slave-mode'. What happens if I set the firewall-
   options and my parent fails, will squid fall back to get objects directly,
   or will it fail? Is this realisable with the mentioned netscape parent?

Thanks for your answers

Marcus
Received on Tue Apr 08 1997 - 00:47:20 MDT