Re: DEAD Parent (even though it's not dead)

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Rodel T. Viado wrote:

>
> Im using squid-2.2STABLE4 (one as parent and the others as
> siblings). I found a peculiar problem wherein the siblings retrieves
> request most of the time DIRECTLY intstead of going thru the parent cache
> even though the parent cache is up and happily serving request.
> Looking at cache.log upon starting the siblings I found the
> following lines (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx isthe ip of the parent squid)
>
> Configuring Parent proxy proxy.mydomain.com/3128/3130
> Ready to Serve Request
> WARNING: Ignored 10 replies from non-peer xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> DETECTED DEAD Parent: proxy.mydomain.com/3128/3130
>
> At this point it somtimes say that it detects a Revived DEAD parent.

I'll bet proxy.mydomain.com has more than one IP address and
not all of those addresses are listed in the DNS.

you can probaby work around it by writing

    cache_peer parent xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Received on Tue Jul 13 1999 - 06:25:33 MDT