Re: Attaching Squid to 'parent' server blocks local access

Kendall Lister wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Dancer wrote:
>
> > They [Telstra] also asked you not to send ICP queries, IIRC. I'm
> > chained through the melbourne farm. Add no-query to the cache_peer
> > line.
>
> >From their instructions, they don't actually _require_ us not to use ICP,
> but presumably if we are single-homed and we trust our parent cache's
> reliability there is no reason to use ICP, and in fact reason not to
> (reduce overheads and delays) - or is this reasoning off the mark?

Sounds bang on. If you've got a single parent and all non-local traffic
goes indirectly through it, ICP is a waste.

D
Received on Wed Dec 15 1999 - 23:50:21 MST