Re: Unable to forward this request at this time

Duane,

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 19:07:07 +0100, Robert Dahlem wrote:

>>>After a short while most requests run into the following message:
>>> Unable to forward this request at this time.
>>>cachemgr.cgi (when asked for Peer Cache Statistics) shows:
>>> Parent : proxy.xxx.xxx.de/81/3130
>>> PINGS SENT : 91
>>> PINGS ACKED: 0 0%

>>See the "PINGS ACKED" line? You have not received ANY ICP replies from
>>this parent cache.
>
>Thanks for your hint. I will investigate if that proxy is really listening on port 3130
>for ICP requests.

Ok, I did so. The result was that this site is running a Netscape Proxy which does not
listen to ICP requests. So my "workaround" (configure the ICP port of the cache_peer to
port 7) was the correct way to solve the problem.

Hasta la vista,
               Robert
Received on Mon Dec 14 1998 - 08:18:22 MST