Re: automatic registration of the Squid cache

pierre@prof.inria.fr writes:

>
>Hello,
>
>When you look at the Squid config config file about the automatic
>registration service, you can read «By default, the annoucement
>message is NOT SENT unless you enable it with 'cache_announce' below.»
>
>I did NOT enable these lines, but I had the surprise to find my cache
>in the list of registrated caches
>(http://www.nlanr.net/Cache/Tracker/caches/). The existence of this
>cache is not meant to be a secret, but I would have liked to know
>about this registration. So I ask the following questions : why did my
>cache send the registration ? Is it a bug of Squid, or did I something
>wrong?

Hi Guillaume,

It is a bug. In versions beta7 and prior the default for the
'announce_rate' was set to 24, which did not match what the
config file said.

Duane W.
Received on Tue Jun 18 1996 - 08:00:22 MDT