Re: Trying direct when parent gets permission denied

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Thilo Manske wrote:

]On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 03:26:17PM +0200, Rainer Perske wrote:
]>
]> In the world of increasing commercial usage of the Web, I assume there
]> will be more and more sites that order e-zines accessable only by specific
]> ip address ranges. Often these sites use local proxy servers that belong
]> to their address range, and parent proxy-Servers located outside (e.g.
]> many German universities, using the DFN caches). Such a modification would
]> help all those sites, I assume.
]
]IMHO it's better to set up a range of ACLs for those sites and
]use always_direct. And I guess it will be much faster!

That was my first adice, too, but for the specified scenario, it is
bordering on the impossible (too many hosts in too many networks. And no
central organisation to coordinate e-zines, it seems). Believe us, when we
say that it is easier to extend squid to try again directly... AFAI
understood Rainer, the ACLs necessary for the always_direct approach would
be very long, messy, and beyond maintainability.

Le deagh dhùrachd,
Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
University of Hanover, Germany; +49 511 762 4726
Received on Tue Sep 07 1999 - 01:53:21 MDT