Re: Auto-bypassing a parent when parent is down

Dancer writes:

>I have a patch for that, against squid 1.1.20. If all configured parents
>cease working it goes directly instead of producing the '...and the host
>is beyond your firewall' message. When the parent comes back, it'll
>resume using it.
>
>http://dancer.brisnet.org.au/patches/squid-1.1.20.last_resort.patch

I must be missing something.

If you want to 'auto-bypass a parent when parent is down' you
should NOT be using the firewall settings.

Bypassing DOWN parents is the default behaviour.

Duane W.
Received on Thu May 21 1998 - 21:04:12 MDT