Re: [squid-users] Squid not marking parents as alive

On mån, 2007-08-27 at 09:36 +0200, Ian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem where squid is not marking a parent as being
> alive when it returns from down state. Squid marks the parent down
> successfully, and in the cache log I can see connect failures to the
> parent on the cache port. But after a while those errors stop, but the
> parent never gets marked as being back up. Any ideas?

Known bug.

http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1972

It's timing related, and is why it's not always seen unless the peer is
down for a very long time..

A workaround is to use the peer monitor function (monitorurl).

Regards
Henrik