Re: [squid-users] checking link availability

From: Marc Elsen <marc.elsen@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:18:53 +0200

aqil wrote:
>
> I want squid to detect whether the internet link is avaliable or not.
> And then of course, if not available, have squid to inform people that the problem is
> coming from our ISP, not from squid nor anything else.
>
> What comes to mind is to ping to our ISP's router (or DNS server, as
> this morning squid returned ERR_DNS_FAIL when the link from ISP was
> down) and then pass the result to squid...
>
> Is it possible that squid can can interpret the ping result ? How ?
 
 Basically, Squid is a network application.
 It doesn't deal with or control these lower level networking issues.
 
 M.
Received on Wed Aug 20 2003 - 02:18:57 MDT

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