Re: [squid-users] Transparent-parent

It is better to specify the parent than to get transparently redirected. By
specifying the parent, your child squid no longer has to do DNS lookups for
all the sites in most cases, and you also get to take advantage of
persistant connections to your parent. With transparent proxying, your
squid will think it is talking to a number of sites, and not make much use
of persistant connections.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernest Yik" <ernestyik@cuhk.edu.hk>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 10:36 PM
Subject: [squid-users] Transparent-parent

> Hi,
>
> Our network provider is going to change from "normal" proxy to
> transparent proxy. Currently our squids (2.2.STABLE5-hno.20000202) are
> configured to use the provider's "normal" proxy as parent and
> everything's going smoothly.
>
> When the provider moves to transparent proxy, should I just
> remove all "parent" setting in our squids and pretend to go direct, when
> actually it is going through a transparent proxy? Should I expect any
> problems? Are there any other squid settings to make it work better
> with a "transparent-parent"?
>
> Thank you for your comments and suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Ernest
>
Received on Wed Jul 18 2001 - 17:04:39 MDT