Re: Proxy relay question - please help

Clifton Royston wrote:
>
> Extremely clear. :-)
>
> I believe what you want is
>
> SERVER-2 squid.conf:
> ...
> cache_peer DVB-STATION parent 3128 3130 no-query default
>
> prefer_direct off
> always_direct deny all
>
> This will make SERVER-2 always attempt to fetch queries through its
> parent caches (prefer_direct off, always_direct deny all.) Since its
> only parent is DVB-STATION (cache_peer DVB-STATION ... default) it will
> always send its queries there first. Since it's using the combination
> of prefer_direct and always_direct deny all, rather than never_direct
> allow all, it will time out and allow itself to go direct if it turns
> out that DVB-STATION is down and not responding.
>
> Nothing special should need to be done on the DVB-STATION, assuming
> queries from there already work.

Thanks a lot for your help.
I'll check if it works fine and I'll keep you informed.

Again, thanks!

Constantin Teodorescu
FLEX Consulting Braila, ROMANIA
Received on Tue Feb 29 2000 - 15:53:57 MST