Re: Cascade issue

Kendall Lister wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Kerry Cox wrote:
>
> > I am wanting to set up a squid box at each of our client sites. They
> > are connected to us via a satellite link. Basically, if the site they
> > are looking for is not on the Linux Squid box, it should send a
> > request to the main cache iengines we have here at the hub, which are
> > running the Inktomi cache server.
>
> So if I understand this correctly, you have a normal Squid proxy, with
> some other cache as its parent?
>

That's correct. There's a Linux box on each site that will be running
Squid. Standard config with RedHat 6.1. Probably the rpm version. If the
URL or objects are not on the client side or here on this Linux box, then it
should do a request over the satellite to our inktomi-cluster servers which
are also caching all the URLs.

>
> > I am, however, successful in getting it to point to the inktomi box
> > itself without looking at the local client. Here is what I have.
> >
> > # this option does work
> > # it points everything to the inktomi-cluster rather than local
> > cache_peer inktomi-cluster.onsatnet.com parent 8080 0 no-query default
>
> When you say "looking at the local client" I presume that you are
> referring to the Squid proxy checking its own cache before asking its
> parent. The above is a fairly standard setup - what does your access.log
> say about objects being fetched?
>

Well I've looked through that file, i.e. access.log and it looks fairly
straightforward. Doesn't look like it's pullin stuff from the cache server.

I have been tinkering with the squid.conf file and I think I may have
something working. At least when I restart the service, it doesn't
complain.

#cache_peer hostname type 3128 3130
cache_peer inktomi-cluster.onsatnet.com parent 8080 0 no-query proxy-only

That looks to work. At least, it is not complaining. But I need to test it
now somehow.
Thanks.
KJ

>
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