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

Hi Guido, thanks for that it put me on the right track.

I also found your comments for bug 1058 which helped to explain the
situation further.
http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1058

Thanks again,
Jarrod

On 7/16/05, Serassio Guido <guido.serassio@acmeconsulting.it> wrote:
> 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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