Re: [squid-users] new user question

The PAC failover mechanism is defined to 30 seconds every 30 minutes if
the primary proxy is completely gone (not even responding to ping). This
is the timeout for trying to contact the primary proxy.

If the primary proxy machine is up but the proxy service is down
(connections refused) then the failover is immediate.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid Hacker
Jim Chivas wrote:
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> I have created a test proxy.pac file from the faq examples that contains
> similar entries as follows:
> 
>  return "proxy1.mydomain.com:8080; " +
>         "proxy2.mydomain.com:8080";
> 
> I'm not too sure if the ; and " are in the correct sequence (are they ??)
> but my real question is when I test this code and turn off 'proxy1' it
> still takes about 30-45 seconds for the 'proxy2' server to take over.
> 
> IS there a way to speed up the time it takes to transfer from one proxy to
> another?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jim
> 
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