Re: [squid-users] connecting to hosts that resolve to multiple IP addresses

Hi,

At 06.22 16/07/2005, Jarrod Harch wrote:

>Hi, apologies if this has been answered already.
>
>Does anyone know what Squid does when a request is made that resolves
>to multiple IPs a.k.a round-robin DNS? (I'm using 2.5 stable 9). For
>example MS IE will take all the addresses returned from the resolver
>and try each in turn until it makes a successful connection, and seems
>to do this per-request e.g. if one host goes down it will use one of
>the other IPs.
>
>Does Squid behave in a similar way? Are there any configuration
>options that affect this behaviour?
>
>Also, does anyone have information about whether other HTTP proxies
>handle round-robin DNS the same way?

See the balance_on_multiple_ip directive in squid.conf.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Sat Jul 16 2005 - 04:08:32 MDT