Re: Unidentified subject!

Scott Hess wrote:

> Since we're talking about a pretty specific connectivity problem (you
> either see the US or you don't), could the problem be addressed by using a
> sacrificial Squid box of some sort?

As Chris said it is not that easy to determine which requests to route
by which proxy. Also, this routing has to be done at a low level in the
cache hierarchy (i.e. browsers), or you won't get much helped from it.

As I said earlier "half_closed_clients off" should get around the
problem induced at the TCP level. (if you have it off and still get a
problem with the number of pending TCP connections, then your proxy is
not dimensioned to handle the number of clients it has)

However, I see no way of getting around the problem that DNS queries
also get clogged down other than to run a exessive amount of dnsserver
processes just in case, even if only a few is used in normal operation.
Good news is that it won't hurt you much to do so (a few KB of memory,
and one filedescriptor to each dnsserver).

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker