Re: [squid-users] cache cluster config management

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Will Lowe wrote:

> 1) Have squid ignore a "cache_peer" config line that lists the local
> machine. This way I can put the same squid.conf file on all servers
> and list all the servers as peers in it.

This is good. I think I have even seen a patch for it.

> 2) Have squid be able to "discover" other siblings on the network via
> multicast. Modify the existing multicast support squid has to *use*
> responses from caches that aren't listed as cache_peers instead of
> discarding them. HTCP would be a better protocol here than ICP, since
> it allows for authenticating the discovered peers via a preshared key.

Multicast needs a bit of work in Squid, currently nobody is maintaining
this aspect.

Adding peer discovery to the multicast peering is a natural move forward.

So I think both approaches have their merits, and one does not exclude the
other.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Apr 29 2004 - 02:35:34 MDT