Re: [squid-users] Unable to forward this request at this time

As the message says, this message is seen if you use never_direct, and
all your parent cache peers are unavailable..

If your Squid can go direct without using parents, do not use the
never_direct directive.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Squid hacker
Mohammad Junaid wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have squid-2.3.STABLE4 on Solaris/x86. Everything works fine but
> during peak hours (We are an ISP) it gives error
> 
> The following error was encountered:
> 
>    * Unable to forward this request at this time.
> 
> This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any
> parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that:
> 
>    * The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct
>      connections to origin servers, and
>    * All configured parent caches are currently unreachable.
> 
> After this message user has refresh the page again and again and after
> many attempts he can see the page. Any body can help?
> NOTE:I have disabled "ns_children" directive in my squid.conf file
> because it gives an error at startup message "parseConfigFile: line
> 620 unrecognized: 'dns_children 5' "
> ------------------------------
> Mohammad Junaid.
>