Re: [squid-users] cache cluster config management

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Will Lowe wrote:

> If not, here are some questions:
>
> 1) Will squid be unhappy if the local machine has itself listed as a
> peer? In this case I could put the SAME squid.conf on every machine
> (via cfengine/rdist/whatever) and just list all 20 caches in it.
>
> 2) Is there any way to specify cache_peer siblings via an acl? This
> is a private network, so I can predict the ip ranges where peers will
> be.
>
> 3) Is there any way to adapt the multicast code to be used to locate
> other peers without them being listed in the config file? Again, on a
> private network I'm not too worried about rogue untrusted caches,
> although it would be really cool if there was some MD5sum
> authentication or something.

Everything is possible with some coding.

But I think the answer to your questions is no on all three issues if you
are not prepared to do some coding to have the features implemented.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Apr 28 2004 - 16:26:46 MDT