Hi! We're making a deal with another ISP to use their proxy only between certain hours, and I was wondering how squid acts when parent dies. We could remove route to the parent at certain hours etc. Does Squid check out parent's existance every request or try again after certain amount of time? If Squid checks parent's existance on every request, how much is it gonna slow doen normal operation? We have two squid proxies, each getting about 100 t req/hour peek. Antti Rytsölä raccoon@dlc.fi