Re: [squid-users] Parent cache problems: keep getting TCP_MISS ?!?

Nevermind ... I was just too dull to understand what I was
seeing in the logs. Got it working.

  Rudolf

Rudolf Potucek wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> I am trying to build a small ISP type router/firewall with transparent
> proxying. The network setup is as follows:
>
> internet --- router --- clients
> |
> qube
> (SQUID/qmail/apache)
>
> where both router and qube are PC-based linux boxes. The router is a
> bit underpowered and I have no real storage space here either, so I
> would prefer to run SQUID on the qube. At the same time I would like
> for web-traffic to not break when qube goes down for maintenance.
>
> I tried to set it up so a copy of squid runs on router but has
> essentially no cache space (is there a way to suppress caching
> entirely?) and has qube as parent. On router, I tried both:
>
> (1) cache_peer qube parent 3128 3130 proxy-only allow-miss
> (2) cache_peer qube parent 3128 3130 no-query default
>
> I get the requested webpages I ask for, so the system works as
> transparent proxy setup, and if SQUID on qube goes down, web-requests
> are still answered by SQUID on router.
>
> Looking at the logs, I see that in both cases SQUID from router
> queries SQUID from qube, and (1) returns TCP_MISS->TCP_PARENT_MISS
> whereas (2) just copies the request to qube. So far so good, BUT I
> keep getting misses even when repeatedly hitting refresh in the
> browser. Any clue why?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rudolf
>
> P.S.: I found one website that claimed that it had newer content and
> didn't want to be cached, so I assume that all the other ones
> (microsoft.com, google.com, ...) should be cacheable, right?
>
> P.P.S: I originally tried posting this via google before realizing
> this was a mailing list, not a NG, so sorry if this shows up twice ...
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 15 2003 - 21:50:41 MDT