Re: What happens if round-robin parent won't deliver pages ?

Danny Sinang wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have 2 round-robin parents (PARENT A & PARENT B) configured for Squid 2.3
> STABLE3.
>
> What will happen if one of the round-robin parent won't respond ? I mean,
> the parent (PARENT A) is alive, but it can't fetch any web pages ?
>
> Will my proxy server fetch from PARENT B solely until PARENT A is able to
> supply pages again ? Or will my proxy server keep on sending some requests
> to PARENT A ?

If will ignore PARENT A until it is alive again.

There is a small issue in Squid-2.3 where PARENT A will receive all
requests for a while after it has come alive again. See
http://squid.sourceforge.net/hno/patch-2.3.html for a patch to that
minor issue.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
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