Re: [squid-users] 2 questions about refreshing cache

Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been using squid 2.4 for a while and I noted that if I type an url (
> http://www.somesite.com) and there is no connection to the internet squid
> fails to retrive the page (obviously). But, when I connect to the internet
> and type the url again, squid keeps reporting that the domain somesite.com
> is unaccessible. Squid caches this and I have to restart it, so it can make
> a dns lookup and access the site. This is a little bit annoying, is there a
> way to configure squid that it will always do a lookup no matter how many
> failures before where on the particular domain?
>

Set negative_dns_ttl to zero.

> Question 2.
> How can force squid to refresh an a webpage stored in the cache doing it
> from the browser, for example, if I would add "()" to the end in the URL:
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org()
>
> it would fetch all objects from the source and update cache.... ? I would
> use it if I know the source has changed and I want to update cache quickly.

Issuing a refresh from the browser generally forces Squid to update. Is
that
what you're after?

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