cache_host_acl or cache_peer_access

Hi,

I have a non-ICP proxy/cache server (WinGate over NT) that has a ZakNet
connection (asymmetric satellite link) and can access sites faster than
our existing IPL, notably sites like microsoft.com, msn.com,
geocities.com, etc.

I have two other proxies, configured as siblings, running squid (1.1.22)
in my Solaris 2.5.1 boxes.

Naturally, I would want to forward destination domains that are fetched
faster to the WinGate proxy using cache_host_acl in the squid servers. But
I cannot seem to make this work as I am watching the logs of the servers
and not seeing any forwarded requests?

Here's an excerpt of my squid.conf:

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cache_host proxy2.ourdomain.com sibling 3128 3130 proxy-only

# This is the WinGate proxy ...
cache_host wingate.ourdomain.com parent 1170 7 default no-query

.
. <snip>
.

# Access lists here ...

blah blah blah ...

# and here's my access list to redirect dstdomain to the WinGate server
acl to_zaknet dstdomain microsoft.com msn.com geocities.com

# and here's how these domains shld be forwarded to the WinGate server
cache_host_acl wingate.ourdomain.com to_zaknet

.
. <snip>
.
# End of squid.conf
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Thinking there could be a problem using this feature in 1.1.22, I
installed 1.2 in another machine and make use of the cache_peer_access
feature (equivalent to cache_host_acl), but to no avail?

Please enlighten me how to use this squid feature ...

Thanks.

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Received on Wed Dec 02 1998 - 23:05:51 MST