Re: About PARENT and prefer_direct off

Francesco Amelio wrote:

> but the tag:
> prefer_direct off
>
> does not work.

In what way does it not work?

> How can i configure squid.conf so that if the peer does not reply to request
> of my squid (not ICP) it got in DIRECT mode to DOWNLOAD request of Client?

It should. You might howeer have to tune the peer connect timeout, or
Squid will not detect that the peer is down until the request forwarding
as a whole is about to timeout.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker