Re: Problem with proxy hierarchy

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Nelson Ferreira Jr. (listas) wrote:

> I am running squid2.2 Stable 2 in a Linux Red Hat 5.0 box and I get in
> trouble configuring my proxy hierarchy. I put the following line in the
> configuration of the "child" squid's:
>
> cache_peer my_parent_host parent 3128 3130
>
> I did no alteration on the parent host and there isn't a DENY line
> blicking the acceds. When squid starts, It says something like
> "configuring parent my_parent_host ports..." and everything looks fine
> (squid works but don't comunnicate with its parent) . But after some
> minutes I get the warning "detected DEAD parent my_parent_host", although
> both squids are working well (but there is no communication between
> them!).
> Could you help me configuring my cache hierarchy? Is there some
> configuration directive that I forgot ?

Maybe there is a firewall between the two caches which is blocking the
ICP messages?

You could try:

        cache_peer my_parent_host parent 3128 0 no-query
        prefer_direct off

Duane W.
Received on Wed Jul 21 1999 - 15:44:13 MDT