Re: [squid-users] How to disable TCP dead detection?

On Friday 15 August 2003 13.12, Vladimir wrote:

> When there is delay in opening of ISDN line and ssh
> channel, Squid can not reach parent proxy on address
> localhost:8000 and it declares it as dead ( I think
> this is famous TCP DEAD feature of Squid). After few
> seconds, line is up, parent is reachable, but in the
> browser I still get error message that all parent
> proxies are down and request can not be forwarded.
> But, parent proxy is alive and kicking. Only way to
> fix it, is to wait something like 10 minutes or so,

You should not need to wait at all. If you use never_direct then dead
peers are supposed to be tried on each and every request as
last-resort path.

> My question is this: how to completely disable this
> TCP dead feature, and force Squid to forward EACH
> request to proxy no matter if it is dead or not,
> because in my case this feature is not usefull at all,
> and just makes troubles.

It is supposed to do exacly just that in never_direct configurations.

Regards
Henrik

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