Re: [squid-users] pinger? what for

Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote:
> Le Mercredi 24 Mars 2010 19:07:48, Amos Jeffries a écrit :
>> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:28:53 -0600, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
>>
>> <luis.daniel.lucio_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> HI squids,
>>>
>>> I did realize that in latest snapshoot 3.1 has pinger disabled. I
>> wonder
>>
>>> to
>>> know what for pinger is?
>> Squid uses it to securely do ICMP to measure distance to the possible
>> source servers of a request. Optimizing which peers get used for fastest
>> responses.
>> It was on for some extra testing on 3.1 betas, but is not yet installed
>> properly, so has been disabled temporarily again for the coming production
>> release.
>>
>> Amos
>
>
> ok, and installing with suid will be enoguht?

If by "suid" you meant "squid", then yes.

Amos

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