Re: Only fetch siblings hits

Duane Wessels wrote:
>
> Graham Maltby writes:
>
> >I am trying to setup a cache to only deliver local or sibling hits, but do
not
> hing in the event of a miss (ie. do not make a direct or parent request).
> >
> >I'm not sure this is possible, anyone have any ideas?
>
> What you want to do sounds very hard. Squid knows immediately if
> an object is in the local cache, but it takes a while to learn
> if the request is in a neighbor cache. Then, with refresh
> paramters and other factors, the request might be a miss at
> the neighbor, even if the object is "present."
>
> Duane W.

Why not set never_direct allow all, having no parents only siblings?
Then squid wouldn't go direct and wouldn't use a parent. Unless I'm
totally wrong which I probably am.

Chuck
Received on Tue Dec 08 1998 - 13:59:18 MST